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This is because unscrupulous universities mint more degrees than there are jobs for. That should be stopped. The talented people get in, and those who don't hav
by pw0ncakes 17y ago
This is because unscrupulous universities mint more degrees than there are jobs for. That should be stopped. The talented people get in, and those who don't have the talent don't. Right now, because everyone can get in to some kind of grad school, it dilutes the value of such degrees to almost zero.
- dantheman 17y agoPeople should be free to do whatever they want. If a lot of people want to go to grad school that's fine, it means we have people with more training. If that training can help them earn more, then more power to them if not well that's life.
- pw0ncakes 17y agoPeople should be free to do whatever they want. This contradicts your argument that society hasn't failed this woman. I'm pretty sure that cleaning up rental apartments is not what she wanted to do with her life.
- dgordon 17y agoPeople should be free to do whatever they want, but not to make other people finance their wants. I see no contradiction.
- pw0ncakes 17y agoIn other words, they can't do what they want with their lives; they have only token freedom. We need to restructure the economy and society so that culture rules, so that the resources are made available to pay for culture and the arts-- so we can stop being an artistic and philosophical backwater-- and the uncultured profit-ideologists who've currently infected this country with their adolescent ideology and bankrupt values are utterly disempowered, instead of running the show as they are now.
- dantheman 17y agoare you a troll? honestly i can't even begin to fathom this comment is serious
- astrec 17y agoContradicts how? She's still free to whatever she wants, including get published in csmonitor.
- SamAtt 17y agoSo it's society's fault for not taking care of her and the University's fault for giving her a degree in a field where there aren't enough jobs but not her fault for getting a degree in a field that is in rapid decline? Yea, that makes sense.
- pyre 17y agoWell, don't you find it a little unethical for Universities to be pushing programs based on their perceived value even though they have little actual value for their participants? In general, the last couple of generations have been sold the idea that getting a university degree is the only way to 'get ahead in life' so that you don't end up 'flipping burgers' for a living by the previous generations, all while the previous generations complained that the newer generations don't "understand the value of hard work." Sure people need to take responsibility for their own actions, but if someone is trained from birth to believe something, casting that belief aside isn't the same as dropping a piece of trash in the trash can. And those that trained that person to hold that belief share a bit of responsibility. Blaming 'society' as a whole is meaningless, though.
- yequalsx 17y agoActually, it is a university's fault to some extent. For instance there are way too many Ph.D. in math and physics for the available work. University's have a moral obligation to inform their students about this. There are serious problems with the current graduate school system. Most people coming into it have no idea what they are getting themselves into.