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The students are the ones paying to be educated, if they cheat they are only cheating themselves anyways. The problem is the cheater will then enter into socie

The students are the ones paying to be educated, if they cheat they are only cheating themselves anyways. The problem is the cheater will then enter into society and tell people "I'm a graduate of $prestigious_university". At that point they are cheating society. Would you want to work with people who cheated? Would you want your doctor to be someone who cheated?

fzzzy 3y ago
Doesn't this already happen all the time?
- onemoresoop 3y ago
  Yes it does but it could be worse. Right now not everyone does this, some students do their work honestly but they may be forced to compete and use AI. It's quite a lose lose situation if you ask me.
_yb2s 3y ago
Yes, but it's just one of a multitude of ways someone could cheat at work, including lying flat out about holding degrees (which in most cases isn't even illegal), or simply faking their effort in the job, and not really doing it. If people are going to cheat themselves out of an education, and then cheat at a job... ultimately they will be 'found out' for not doing their job properly. Unless there is absolutely no objective way to evaluate, measure, or observe job performance, in which case the job is probably nonsense anyway and cheating doesn't matter.
ElevenLathe 3y ago
The world is filled with (some would say entirely composed of) people who are cheating society, usually in much much worse ways. Why would I care if I work with people who cheated at college? I work for a business that constantly cheats me, my coworkers, its customers, its suppliers, the government, and innocent people with no formal affiliation to the business at all. This is what businesses exist to do. The only people a business theoretically exists NOT to cheat is its investors, and their empirical record there is mixed at best. I'm not in any position to evaluate if a doctor is doing a good job or not (almost nobody is, not even doctors themselves), but in principle I am not opposed to their cheating if it doesn't affect my "care" (i.e. my family doctor cheating on some exam about the esoterica of podiatry or some other specialty they would normally just refer me for).

fzzzy 3y ago

Doesn't this already happen all the time?

onemoresoop 3y ago
Yes it does but it could be worse. Right now not everyone does this, some students do their work honestly but they may be forced to compete and use AI. It's quite a lose lose situation if you ask me.

_yb2s 3y ago

Yes, but it's just one of a multitude of ways someone could cheat at work, including lying flat out about holding degrees (which in most cases isn't even illegal), or simply faking their effort in the job, and not really doing it. If people are going to cheat themselves out of an education, and then cheat at a job... ultimately they will be 'found out' for not doing their job properly. Unless there is absolutely no objective way to evaluate, measure, or observe job performance, in which case the job is probably nonsense anyway and cheating doesn't matter.

ElevenLathe 3y ago

The world is filled with (some would say entirely composed of) people who are cheating society, usually in much much worse ways. Why would I care if I work with people who cheated at college? I work for a business that constantly cheats me, my coworkers, its customers, its suppliers, the government, and innocent people with no formal affiliation to the business at all. This is what businesses exist to do. The only people a business theoretically exists NOT to cheat is its investors, and their empirical record there is mixed at best. I'm not in any position to evaluate if a doctor is doing a good job or not (almost nobody is, not even doctors themselves), but in principle I am not opposed to their cheating if it doesn't affect my "care" (i.e. my family doctor cheating on some exam about the esoterica of podiatry or some other specialty they would normally just refer me for).