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You are basically criticizing people for wanting money and not wanting to do unnecessary work for it. You might as well criticize human nature. 99% of people
by x220 8y ago
You are basically criticizing people for wanting money and not wanting to do unnecessary work for it.
You might as well criticize human nature.
99% of people pick the best path they can see towards an easier life that gives them the most suitable work/money trade-off they are able to tolerate. If MBA grads aren't good at what they do, that's the fault of MBA programs. MBA grads just want to get credentials and training and make money, just like almost every person in the world. I tend to shy away from personal statements, but your use of "roaches" makes me think that some of what you say bleeds from personal wounds.
- mlthoughts2018 8y agoCriticizing human nature is a good way to improve our behavioral defaults. For example using science instead of burning witches. You seem surprised someone would criticize a bad manifestation of human nature. That puzzles me, given that it’s so historically effective.
- x220 8y agoI'm surprised you're criticizing MBA grads instead of the MBA programs, since the MBA programs aren't teaching effectively while the MBA grads are merely trying to get a better life.
- mlthoughts2018 8y agoI explicitly said I didn’t blame the grads in my original comment, at least not nearly as much as businesses that keep facilitating economic demand for those credentials.
- x220 8y agoYou call them roaches. At the very least, I think you resent them immensely. I don't mean this to undermine you, but rather to provoke thought: are you sure you don't blame them?
- mlthoughts2018 8y agoYour comment took an interpretation of mine that doesn’t seem compatible with what I actually wrote, particularly that I explicitly said I did not blame people for credential rent seeking (even if it makes me justifiably angry), but rather I blame organizations that fuel the demand which makes this credential rent seeking profitable in the first place. Somehow you feel that because I used an analogy of roaches scattering to describe when rent-seeking people looking to secure rents with credential are forced to flee one source (MBA programs) for some other that this makes your interpretation compatible with what I wrote, but I don’t see why. You questioning “why I blame [MBA grads]” seems just as incompatible with what I wrote as before.
- opportune 8y agoThis argument doesn't make any sense, plenty of bad things are human nature, that doesn't mean you should just throw up your hands and say "oh well".