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You could teach old people to stop trying to charge 100K for some ridiculous degree as a prerequisite to enter certain job markets, but they already seem aware

You could teach old people to stop trying to charge 100K for some ridiculous degree as a prerequisite to enter certain job markets, but they already seem aware of the problems they're causing.

pixl97 7y ago
You cant teach anyone to make less profit.
- salawat 7y ago
  I'm pounding the strongly disagree button. Do you eat your fill before you serve your children dinner? Do you eat your fill before your guests get a share? If you had money to blow, do you buy every single house in a locality just to keep them empty? Do you charge your neighbors $150 an hour for technical support they need, and implement payment plans they can barely get out from under to make it happen? No, you don't. Because at some level you have two neurons to rub together that say "I don't need this, it isn't terribly polite, and even if I did, I wouldn't be the best equipped to manage actually keeping things running smoothly." Making "less profit" is a subset of the same group of life lessons as those I posted above. Except now, we have an entire strata of people who forsake the basics of human coexistence called "capitalists", who seek to leverage every opportunity to build rent-seeking empires at the expense of everyone else because... Why? Because if they don't somebody else will? You are a citizen of the world first, and the economy second. If there is something that needs to get done, work at figuring out how to get it done with what you've got, and no one will begrudge you making a bit extra off it if it makes their lives easier. Reasonable profit is a given; predatory profit generating practices, however, are not, and should never be acceptable. Reasonable profit making is absolutely learn/teachable. You just have to have a modicum of humanity left to be willing to recognize and honor it.
- thatcat 7y ago
  I suppose they don't believe in their own ability to educate students enough to generate ideas that pay for themselves via research grants; otherwise it would be more profitable to charge less.

You could teach old people to stop trying to charge 100K for some ridiculous degree as a prerequisite to enter certain job markets, but they already seem aware of the problems they're causing.

pixl97 7y ago

You cant teach anyone to make less profit.

salawat 7y ago
I'm pounding the strongly disagree button. Do you eat your fill before you serve your children dinner? Do you eat your fill before your guests get a share? If you had money to blow, do you buy every single house in a locality just to keep them empty? Do you charge your neighbors $150 an hour for technical support they need, and implement payment plans they can barely get out from under to make it happen? No, you don't. Because at some level you have two neurons to rub together that say "I don't need this, it isn't terribly polite, and even if I did, I wouldn't be the best equipped to manage actually keeping things running smoothly." Making "less profit" is a subset of the same group of life lessons as those I posted above. Except now, we have an entire strata of people who forsake the basics of human coexistence called "capitalists", who seek to leverage every opportunity to build rent-seeking empires at the expense of everyone else because... Why? Because if they don't somebody else will? You are a citizen of the world first, and the economy second. If there is something that needs to get done, work at figuring out how to get it done with what you've got, and no one will begrudge you making a bit extra off it if it makes their lives easier. Reasonable profit is a given; predatory profit generating practices, however, are not, and should never be acceptable. Reasonable profit making is absolutely learn/teachable. You just have to have a modicum of humanity left to be willing to recognize and honor it.
thatcat 7y ago
I suppose they don't believe in their own ability to educate students enough to generate ideas that pay for themselves via research grants; otherwise it would be more profitable to charge less.