87 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 28 Oct \ on: University Professors Are Approaching Near Unanimity as a Democratic Lock Politics_And_Law
Quite the racket. Go into massive amounts of debt to get indoctrinated by wannabe political activists.
Don't get me wrong. If you want to be a doctor, lawyer, engineer etc I think higher education is amazing but for most people it's a racket.
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92 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 28 Oct
Another distortion caused by government money.
Doctors, lawyers, engineers; heck even writers (who know how to write), actually have market value.
But because gov't money isn't allocated by market forces, we have proliferation of useless departments and useless degrees.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 28 Oct
Substack is great for writers with a large following
Matt Taibbi for example
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 28 Oct
1000 percent
Exhibit A: journalism school graduates
Journalists are non essential workers. One reporter quits, his spot will be filled in one hour or less
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