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This is nonsense. Getting into elite schools opens up doors that are otherwise completely shut. At law firms, at prestigious graduate schools, in academia, in m
by lemevi 11y ago
This is nonsense. Getting into elite schools opens up doors that are otherwise completely shut. At law firms, at prestigious graduate schools, in academia, in medical schools and good positions at top corporations. Every year information is collected on the various success rates for students coming out of America's universities and students from elite school make up the highest paying and most successful members of our society. This is as true now as it was twenty years ago.
- ThomPete 11y agoAll areas that are going to be increasingly disrupted by technology and digitalization. So sure for now but this will change.
- wfo 11y agoSignalling and networking and group association and stereotypes are inherently human and have remained the same for the past 6000 years of human history no matter the changes in technology. You can't just throw out contentless buzzword bingo like "disruption" and "technology" and seriously expect anyone to believe it's going to change.
- ThomPete 11y agoThats not the point. I am talking about when technology makes it obsolete to even have most doctors and lawyers.
- mozumder 11y agoIf that happens, then social status shifts to other fields, and you're back to square one. Social status will always exist. Life will always be unfair.
- eruditely 11y agoYou just have to signal the right way to show other people that you're the right type of person. Hard to explain but if you experiment you can find that this will get you a huge amount of the way.
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- nugget 11y agoSignaling will become worth more at the very top (top 20 schools) and less below that tier, which ironically will increase competition for the top 20, but probably reduce stress on the majority of kids who were always looking locally or regionally to begin with.