If STEM millennials default on our student loans en masse it's going to actually be the death of academia. It won't just be that some degrees are useless, but that basically all degrees are useless. Even the shitlibbiest of shitlib millennials who go through permanent (or even temporary but still long-term) financial ruin from student loan default will beat that drum to their graves.

Expect a lot of make work WFH bullshit soon.

@NEETzsche
To this day, I cannot wrap my head around why are universities trying to be 3 fucking things at once.
1) Education facilities (barely)
2) Scientific shit (however that is supposed to be connected)
3) Money extraction facilities for people who didn't have the "I wanna be an astronaut" talk with their dad at the age of 6.

And I hate it. :ayaya:

Undergraduate programs are supposed to provide education. Postgraduate education, like masters and PhD programs are meant to conduct research, which is the discovery of new knowledge. The money extraction part is kind of a recent contrivance. It’s not that universities don’t perform any function – the first two are perfectly legitimate – it’s that the ones in the West went from absolutely world class to complete trash in my lifetime. It’s tragic, but it’s reality.

We’ll see if they ever recover.

@NEETzsche
Well, no.
If universities were about Education, it would not be locked into a credit system, and closed up. On the opposite, they would allow you to study every subject for years, from outside, and get certification about your abilities.

I am public about the fact, that I passed literally all classes and the final test. Yet, according to the UNI, I am an uneducated shithead, because they didn't like my batchelor thesis. Does that seem like an education institution?

It seems like an academy. All institutions are flawed. That’s never going to change. But there are certainly degrees of grift, of failure. My alma mater offered all kinds of fringe benefits to being a matriculated student, and I took advantage of them. Access to supercomputers I wouldn’t otherwise get access to. Access to the forge, which had sophisticated equipment. Courses on how to use it, which you really couldn’t learn except as a hands-on experience, making purely online courses a waste. You could get help on parts of the material that you were struggling with in a way that an online course does not really offer. Connections, job-hunting opportunities, the list goes on. You have to have an eye for these things but they absolutely are present.

But universities, today? All that shit is gone, at least in America. And it’s replaced with pure grift and ideology. It went from expensive but useful to even more expensive but basically valueless.

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@NEETzsche
Funny.... I definitely used the school for job hunting, since obviously, that is its entire purpose.

But when I talked to my brother about the job hunting days, where companies LITERALLY SET UP STANDS where they beg you to work for them..... he said, that he didn't get that it was the point. :awooREEE:

Recruiting used to be aggressive. It’s not anymore. They don’t care. They don’t want you. They think we’re all expendable, and it’s true for the purposes of quarterly reports, but not for the purposes of running a civilization.

That shit is coming home to roost. Right now the only people who take corporations seriously are diversity hires, and they only do so because of the constant barrage of diversity propaganda pumping them up and attacking white men.

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