Greetings good citizen, once again the media is stirring up the sediment, looking for old hobby horses. Today's archival find was the 'imbalance' of minorities in the nation's college system. Seems it's worse than it was 30 years ago but they haven't accounted for the 'blowback' created by the Occupy Movement.
You remember them, the public space campers who protested the lack of job openings for the degrees they spent their parent's money on?
Sort of a 'wake up call' wasn't it?
It also heralded the begining of the 'gig' economy we are now cursed with.
Occupy Who? Yeah, same kids!
Part & parcel with this is how nobody sees the irony of spending a fortune for a degree, then, if the graduate didn't 'intern' for the company, requiring them to be 'trained' after they're hired!
WTF!
Those of us who have done the 'intake dance' multiple times know the drill, nothin gets done until you've been shown where the bathroom is, what time you go on break and what you do for mealtime since it WAS customary [won't be in the future for most occupations] to have to spend at least one meal period at the workplace.
{Above assumes there won't be a major clamity that drastically reduces the population. Eventually capitalists will wake up to the need to reduce the work week AND to put an END to the FARCE of HOMEOWNERSHIP [Welfare for the banking system!])
But I digress, back to pedigrees.
Since EVERYBODY needs to be 'broken in' [shown what the 'accepted method' of doing things is] The four years spent 'prostrate to the higher mind' are literally wasted if we discount the 'socializing' factor.
Colleges EXIST to introduce the children of the wealthy to their less fortunate future underlings.
And if they don't NEED those underlings, OFW! Let's call the Ivy League system what it REALLY IS, a first job interview if you're saavy enough to realize it!
The kids are sent there to 'scope out' who is talented enough to help them run the businesses they stand to inherit, if they choose wisely, it means NOT spending forever as the vice president in charge of paperclips.
The 'my dog's better than your's' B.S. doesn't end with college, afterwards alumni work tirelessly buffing the reputation of their alma maters [whether they deserve it or not.]
NEVER cease to be amazed that a MBA from the local community college will open the doors of convenience store management [at least you'll be able to spell it] while the IDENTICAL degree from an Ivy League school opens the doors to the 'corridors of power' NOT BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU LEARNED BUT BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU SPENT!
How bizarre is it that NOTHING says LOYALTY louder than MONEY?
More unfortunate is how that has come to mean THE FINEST IDIOTS money can buy?
If MONEY = INTELLIGENCE, how do you account for the state of the planet today?
Again, as is becoming my custom, I will leave this one here for you to ruminate upon.
See you tomorrow Head,
Gegner
You remember them, the public space campers who protested the lack of job openings for the degrees they spent their parent's money on?
Sort of a 'wake up call' wasn't it?
It also heralded the begining of the 'gig' economy we are now cursed with.
Occupy Who? Yeah, same kids!
Part & parcel with this is how nobody sees the irony of spending a fortune for a degree, then, if the graduate didn't 'intern' for the company, requiring them to be 'trained' after they're hired!
WTF!
Those of us who have done the 'intake dance' multiple times know the drill, nothin gets done until you've been shown where the bathroom is, what time you go on break and what you do for mealtime since it WAS customary [won't be in the future for most occupations] to have to spend at least one meal period at the workplace.
{Above assumes there won't be a major clamity that drastically reduces the population. Eventually capitalists will wake up to the need to reduce the work week AND to put an END to the FARCE of HOMEOWNERSHIP [Welfare for the banking system!])
But I digress, back to pedigrees.
Since EVERYBODY needs to be 'broken in' [shown what the 'accepted method' of doing things is] The four years spent 'prostrate to the higher mind' are literally wasted if we discount the 'socializing' factor.
Colleges EXIST to introduce the children of the wealthy to their less fortunate future underlings.
And if they don't NEED those underlings, OFW! Let's call the Ivy League system what it REALLY IS, a first job interview if you're saavy enough to realize it!
The kids are sent there to 'scope out' who is talented enough to help them run the businesses they stand to inherit, if they choose wisely, it means NOT spending forever as the vice president in charge of paperclips.
The 'my dog's better than your's' B.S. doesn't end with college, afterwards alumni work tirelessly buffing the reputation of their alma maters [whether they deserve it or not.]
NEVER cease to be amazed that a MBA from the local community college will open the doors of convenience store management [at least you'll be able to spell it] while the IDENTICAL degree from an Ivy League school opens the doors to the 'corridors of power' NOT BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU LEARNED BUT BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU SPENT!
How bizarre is it that NOTHING says LOYALTY louder than MONEY?
More unfortunate is how that has come to mean THE FINEST IDIOTS money can buy?
If MONEY = INTELLIGENCE, how do you account for the state of the planet today?
Again, as is becoming my custom, I will leave this one here for you to ruminate upon.
See you tomorrow Head,
Gegner
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