>This isn't just about China, the Shenzen example was exaggerated. What I meant was: Where I live I'm there's an insane dissonance where companies are on the on

>This isn't just about China, the Shenzen example was exaggerated. What I meant was: Where I live I'm there's an insane dissonance where companies are on the one hand trying to only hire academics for jobs that they think require an academic skill, yet happily pay Hays/Accenture/$TEMP_AGENCY to procure workers for them when those academics can't be found or don't perform. They're not willing to give me a permanent job with competitive pay because of my lack of degree, but are happy to pay Hays 70-100€/h so they get me as a temp.. doing the exact same shit, pretty much in perpetuance. Yeah, of course. "A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him." -- Keynes might as well have been talking about IT procurement managers. Just like nobody got fired for hiring IBM, nobody got fired for hiring Accenture, even though they absolutely should because they're probably the worst consultancy on planet earth. Degrees also provide a degree of arse covering for hiring managers.