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When people say that success depends "not on what you know, but on who you know", Oxford PPE is the textbook example. It's the degree for people who don't want
by Silhouette 10y ago
When people say that success depends "not on what you know, but on who you know", Oxford PPE is the textbook example.
It's the degree for people who don't want to have a career doing anything other than working in the politics/economics/media bubble.
It is also perhaps the strongest argument ever made that no-one should be allowed to hold high political office without having spent a significant amount of time doing something outside that bubble.
- robk 10y agoTrump doesn't fit that model and I'd guess if you're here you're no trump fan. So it's not a panacea.
- grzm 10y agoI'd guess if you're here you're no trump fan Would you elaborate? If you're referring to the HN community, a few minutes' reading through the comments will show you that there's a wide range of political views, including Trump supporters.
- Silhouette 10y agoOn the contrary, Trump is just about the perfect example of the dangers of PPE: he's a man who enjoyed advantages early on that most people will never have, who has consequently spent his entire career in an artificial bubble almost totally unrelated to the experience of most normal people, who has learned to speak confidently about almost any subject regardless of whether he actually knows or understands very much about that subject, and who as result of those attributes has now risen to a level of power he is utterly unqualified to wield.
- DogPawHat 10y agoSo he's an outlier in the bubble, but still in the bubble? It sounds about right.
- oh_sigh 10y agoNot everyone likes to shut themselves into an echo chamber. Yes, this site is largely anti-Trump, but that doesn't mean that everyone is. For example, my account here is >2000 days old(and I was lurking for a while before I made this), and I find myself generally agreeing with a lot of Trumps policies.