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Criticizing human nature is a good way to improve our behavioral defaults. For example using science instead of burning witches. You seem surprised someone wou
by mlthoughts2018 8y ago
Criticizing 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.