I've watched plenty of the folks who I knew to be "cheaters" in my local state university not only end up at the FAANG, but end up being promoted relatively qui

I've watched plenty of the folks who I knew to be "cheaters" in my local state university not only end up at the FAANG, but end up being promoted relatively quickly. Plenty of folks witness and seethe the same way on places like blind where the leetcode interview cheaters who make it into the FAANG also get promoted. I think cheating in school is basically logical, as I think school performance is only lightly predictive and companies either fire incompetents quickly or are themselves incompetent and deserve their fate. Why should we be upset at someone programming a periodic table into their calculator for a physics class where that would be "cheating" when the tip-top of our educational elite cheat at the highest levels of their craft?[1] [2] Most professors/teachers are deeply authoritarian to the core, as their role in society is to act as the filter, who decides that "some in this room should have good earning potential and eat lobster thermidor" and others should "go back to the fields". I do not believe that most teachers or professors have earned or deserve their role as "arbiters of future earning potential", and I view subverting their intentions as needed - including their intentions to root out cheating - to be extremely important in the maintenance of a free society, as the alternative begins with ideas like "teachers can confiscate cellphones for the whole year and not give them back" and "This one notorious shitty professor acts as the arbiter in the whole department for who writes the code at the FAANG and who serves them sushi at their cafeteria" [1] - https://stanforddaily.com/2023/07/19/stanford-president-resigns-over-manipulated-research-will-retract-at-least-3-papers/ https://stanforddaily.com/2023/07/19/stanford-president-resi... [2] - https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/3/plagiarism-allegations-gay-resigns/ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/3/plagiarism-alleg...