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Don’t employers have a contribution to this as well? There’s many positions that don’t really need college degrees yet list them as a requirement. I feel if peo
by bumby 4y ago
Don’t employers have a contribution to this as well? There’s many positions that don’t really need college degrees yet list them as a requirement. I feel if people could get gainful employment without college, demand would fall.
- pas 4y agohuman resources (and the labor market, and the whole employment culture in general) in the US is very suboptimal :/ a lot of cultural differences (and other historic path dependencies) led to using degrees and other signals for hiring instead of actual performance. even by-definition woke (and I'm not using it pejoratively here) employers have trouble letting go of their mindless credentialism. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1539188973553299457 https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1539188973553299457 [audio version seems non-paywalled https://curio.io/publications/matthew-yglesias/matthew-yglesias/why-progressive-organizations-have-become-so-vulnerable-to-staff-meltdowns https://curio.io/publications/matthew-yglesias/matthew-ygles... see also https://www.slowboring.com/p/crt-school https://www.slowboring.com/p/crt-school ]