Glad to hear the situation improved after my time. Even back then, I observed that logic treated its students better than maths did. There was precious little help for us in prelim prep, just a student-run seminar and problem book, while I don&#x27;t remember logic even having a comparable test, or if they did, it was not designed to filter out over 50% of students as the maths one was.<p>Don&#x27;t understand your last paragraph. If demand for jobs exceeds supply from the employer, that suggests there will be downward pressure on wages, i.e. the labour becomes even cheaper. Maybe you&#x27;re suggesting that the jobs can&#x27;t be that bad if people want to work at them, but that wasn&#x27;t what I said. I enjoyed being a TA immensely, and it was a flexible job that fit my studies well so I did it even though I had funding - but that doesn&#x27;t mean I wasn&#x27;t still massively cheaper for the university than hiring Dr. Coward, or that there wasn&#x27;t a cynical strategy of getting us students to teach calculus cheaply and then dumping half of us on the street.