Writing for Bloomberg, Megan McArdle suggests can’t get tenure? then get a real job. It’s good advise. In other words: can’t be a pimp? then leave the ghetto.

McArdle is referring to an emotional debate about job searches in the academic ghetto. Here are some titles of the posts:

• Naming and Shaming: UC-Riverside English Gives Candidates 5 Days’ Notice,
• Job Market Rage Redux,
• and most hilariously, How the Tenured are to the Job Market as White People are to Racism

The entire controversy boils down to three points:

• The academic ghetto pays almost everyone in it (except for pimps) really badly
• The pay is so bad that it is painfully expensive to try to find another job in the ghetto
• But at least Affirmative Action officers have a job!

As Megan McArdle notes, the solution is to get a real job. Leave the ghetto.