Good on them. Somewhat related, but one of my favorite movies of all time, Margin Call, is underscored by this constant awareness that all the brilliant on Wal

Good on them. Somewhat related, but one of my favorite movies of all time, Margin Call, is underscored by this constant awareness that all the brilliant on Wall Street - all of the intellectual power, and occasionally sheer genius, harnessed for financial engineering - all this mental horsepower could have been spent building rockets, bridges, incredible new materials, predicting the weather, or teasing out the secrets of the cosmos and of existence. Propelling the nation into a new century. I was about to quote a scene at length, but honestly, I'd feel bad ruining a single moment of the thing. If you're even tangentially interested in Wall Street . . or the aughtie's collapse of the financial system . . or even just the giant sucking sound of all our best and brightest getting pulled into shit that is dumb and wrong . . I'd seriously recommend it. Probably the best Wall Street movie ever made. Anyway, it's somewhat related, but it's also very related, because, jesus. Do we really need another bumper crop of generic bachelor degrees feeding the paper machine? The last big enterprise software install I sat in on, a rotating cast of forty some different executives, with over sixty seven hours spent in meetings at an average cost of eleven hundred dollars per minute. That's just salaries. Somehow, in my gut, I feel like if we had more certified technical people laying around, we would not be seeing crap like that so damn often.