Second-order careerism in academia (an edited comment to a friends-only post on FB)

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What sounds really wrong to me is the very tendency to use career-related concepts as indicators of merit in academia. What does it mean that "a career trajectory does not meet the high standards"? The high standards of what, of success in careerism? I thought it was the content and the quality of one's research that was supposed to meet the high standards of excellence in the research world, rather than a career. Show me an outstanding piece of research work, and I do not care about whatever career difficulties the author may have had in the past! -- that would seem to be the proper attitude in my view.