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AKA: If everyone is super, then nobody is
by flavius29663 3y ago
AKA: If everyone is super, then nobody is
- kevviiinn 3y ago[flagged]
- coding123 3y agoHumanity is obviously a strong-link system.
- augment003 3y agoI think the implication is that a college degree no longer represents progress.
- kevviiinn 3y agoDid it ever represent progress? What I was saying is that the increased baseline of education for the populace is progress, not that a degree represents progress itself
- leetcrew 3y agounironically yes? if a job "requires" a BA/BS, but realistically could be done by the median highschool graduate, that's four years off the person's life for no real reason. of course, there are other benefits of higher education. but credential creep itself is a signal of waste, not progress.
- johngladtj 3y agoWhen those standards cost resources to acquire and maintain without providing a return? Yes, absolutely that's harmful for humanity in general
- kevviiinn 3y agoThe return is a more educated populace, what's harmful for humanity in general is thinking about everything in monetary terms
- uejfiweun 3y agoAstounding to me how deep that movie was for a kids movie, how DIFFERENT it is from the types of morals and values that are pushed in modern films, and how well it holds up today.
- jl6 3y agoTen years later, we learned that if everything is awesome, nothing is awesome.