Tenure part two is earlier.
It turns out that my youngest daughter, who is an academic, is in the position of hiring a tenured professor. She has a few things to say about tenure and why it should be abolished. All the reasons are practical.
It is a bad deal for universities. It is a one-sided contract. The professor can quit anytime he/she wants, but the university is stuck with every bad choice. There is no legal retirement age these days, so tenured professors have to be bribed to retire at very high costs to the university. Bad choices of tenured professors drive away students, drive away good faculty and often fail to do the work they are hired to do. Hiring of tenured professors becomes a bureaucratic nightmare as every effort is made to weed out poor choices. Time is wasted, the best professors usually won't wait and the bureaucracy doesn't prevent bad choices.
Tenure sure seems like a bad deal for the university.