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So then who cares if they got an education? If they want to pay for 1 and 2 but didn't get an education, why does it matter.

• itishappy 3y ago
  Universities care. They can't charge as much for just 1 & 2. The rest of us might too, if we expect "I have a degree in X from Y university" to imply some level of competence.
• btilly 3y ago
  People who see education as a valuable credential care. And yes, there are a lot of people who would like to outsource questions of competence to, "Do you have the credentials that I am looking for?" Any cynicism about the competence of people who do this is fully justified. But conversely, it isn't the worst approach to take to evaluating people when you personally lack competence. As an example, I would never hire a programmer based on credentials. But it is often the first and only thing that I look for in a random doctor visit.
• ziddoap 3y ago
  If I go to my doctor, or counsellor, or engineer, or mechanic, or... the list goes on... I care that they actually got an education rather than cheated their way through it. These are all things I can't personally judge competence in, because I'm not competent in medicine, psychology, engineering, etc. The most reasonable way for me to judge competence is whether an accredited school vouches for them via a degree.
• billy99k 3y ago
  Do you want to compete with someone for a job that cheated to get an education and got the job over you? By allowing this to continue, it will just add to the further decline of society.
  • shadowgovt 3y ago
    Depends on what we mean by "competition" here. If they're at another firm... Yes! My company of people who actually know the stuff the certificates say they know will run circles around them in the market. But if we're talking someone the company just hired who is now my responsibility... Not so much.
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