quitting phd

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That's it i'm done.
It's my second year and the only thing i've learned over the course of doing a Ph.D is that professors need braindead slaves who will do all work for them, will refuse to actually teach their students unless you're relatives or friends and finally there is no future for you in academia unless you're willing to spend your entire life waiting untill that old fuck is dead and MAYBE his position will be given with you. Unless of course the university will find someone they consider better (because they know eachother).
Candidates are all brainwashed with citation indexes and all that crap but reality is that academia is all about nepotism and who you know and most importantly, who your relatives are. If you are a nobody there is absolutely no chance you will succeed in this field.
Somehow i think that it would be better if most professors were executed by a firing squad because they contribute absolutely nothing to the scientific progress and are literally a waste of space on this earth.
This whole system is rotten to the core and needs to be torn down ASAP.