No degree, please.
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Yeah that'll just take off as an idea. At least when I play my mental masturbation games, I get to play with click-clack math rocks and slay ogres. Their game sounds so much more lame.
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Right, next time I hire an engineer, I won't bother asking for any qualifications. After all, who needs maths? Journalists don't, so why would anybody else?
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in No degree, please.:
Right, next time I hire an engineer, I won't bother asking for any qualifications. After all, who needs maths? Journalists don't, so why would anybody else?
Hey, now.
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What's funny is that the writer has a PhD in Communications, and is an assistant Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, assuming it's the same guy who pops up on Google.
When he loses his job, he'll probably blame it on left-wing culture, rather than shitting all over his workplace.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in No degree, please.:
What's funny is that the writer has a PhD in Communications, and is an assistant Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, assuming it's the same guy who pops up on Google.
When he loses his job, he'll probably blame it on left-wing culture, rather than shitting all over his workplace.
Okay that's hilarious.
And "PhD in Communications" explains a hell of a lot.
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Also, how could this possibly be enforced? Just remove your degree from your resume. Good luck cross-referencing every public and private school's graduation data, over the span of about twenty years, because even if every single one gives you their list (and they're not, ever), your HR person is going to have to run that check for every applicant. And the process is convoluted and time-consuming enough as it is.
Please love yourself.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in No degree, please.:
Also, how could this possibly be enforced? Just remove your degree from your resume. Good luck cross-referencing every public and private school's graduation data, over the span of about twenty years, because even if every single one gives you their list (and they're not, ever), your HR person is going to have to run that check for every applicant. And the process is convoluted and time-consuming enough as it is.
Possibly the Communications PhD and Video Games Scholar (I kid you not) didn't think of that.
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@Doctor-Phibes Okay I'm looking this guy up. Please tell me there's a photo and it's exactly what I think it is.
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Okay I found some photos. This guy isn't a video games scholar. Trying to look like Dan Brown in your crappy online headshots and dabbling in Civ VI does not make you a video games scholar. If he's that, then I'm a fucking tea botanist.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in No degree, please.:
Right, next time I hire an engineer, I won't bother asking for any qualifications. After all, who needs maths? Journalists don't, so why would anybody else?
Didn't bother to read the essay, didya?
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@Jolly said in No degree, please.:
@Doctor-Phibes said in No degree, please.:
Right, next time I hire an engineer, I won't bother asking for any qualifications. After all, who needs maths? Journalists don't, so why would anybody else?
Didn't bother to read the essay, didya?
You mean this bit?
With the exception of doctors, engineers, and a handful of other professions that can be taught in dedicated schools, as is the case in most of the rest of the world there’s no single skill set you can acquire in any of America’s best universities these days that you’d actually need to perform any high-paying job in our contemporary economy
This is the same old tired argument about education being worthless. I wouldn't mind so much if he didn't describe himself as a video games scholar.
Handful of professions? Seriously? Try absolutely everything technical.
The problem with Communications people is they think they're actually the majority.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in No degree, please.:
@Jolly said in No degree, please.:
@Doctor-Phibes said in No degree, please.:
Right, next time I hire an engineer, I won't bother asking for any qualifications. After all, who needs maths? Journalists don't, so why would anybody else?
Didn't bother to read the essay, didya?
You mean this bit?
With the exception of doctors, engineers, and a handful of other professions that can be taught in dedicated schools, as is the case in most of the rest of the world there’s no single skill set you can acquire in any of America’s best universities these days that you’d actually need to perform any high-paying job in our contemporary economy
This is the same old tired argument about education being worthless. I wouldn't mind so much if he didn't describe himself as a video games scholar.
Handful of professions? Seriously? Try absolutely everything technical.
The problem with Communications people is they think they're actually the majority.
I know some pretty well paid IT people without a college degree....
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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I know a few engineers without college degrees.
The problem with the article is he's suggesting swapping one kind of stupid for an even more stupid kind of stupid.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in No degree, please.:
@Jolly said in No degree, please.:
@Doctor-Phibes said in No degree, please.:
Right, next time I hire an engineer, I won't bother asking for any qualifications. After all, who needs maths? Journalists don't, so why would anybody else?
Didn't bother to read the essay, didya?
You mean this bit?
With the exception of doctors, engineers, and a handful of other professions that can be taught in dedicated schools, as is the case in most of the rest of the world there’s no single skill set you can acquire in any of America’s best universities these days that you’d actually need to perform any high-paying job in our contemporary economy
This is the same old tired argument about education being worthless. I wouldn't mind so much if he didn't describe himself as a video games scholar.
It's the same argument that comes from internet rules lawyers and hobbyist gatekeepers who tell n00bs that they're doin' it wrong.
I think that ivory tower academia wouldn't accept the likes of me, but there's nothing wrong with me, so I'm bitter about that. Therefore, I'm snide about education generally. Because I perceive it as a game I'm not allowed to play, even though I could. So I'll make a case that the competence games I do engage in have far more value than education, and I'm going to look for opportunities to shit on the latter. Makes me feel better about myself.
It's shite. Railing against formal education is silly as railing against carpentry or deer hunting. Anyone without an agenda could see that you get out of it what you put into it.
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@Jolly said in No degree, please.:
@Doctor-Phibes said in No degree, please.:
@Jolly said in No degree, please.:
@Doctor-Phibes said in No degree, please.:
Right, next time I hire an engineer, I won't bother asking for any qualifications. After all, who needs maths? Journalists don't, so why would anybody else?
Didn't bother to read the essay, didya?
You mean this bit?
With the exception of doctors, engineers, and a handful of other professions that can be taught in dedicated schools, as is the case in most of the rest of the world there’s no single skill set you can acquire in any of America’s best universities these days that you’d actually need to perform any high-paying job in our contemporary economy
This is the same old tired argument about education being worthless. I wouldn't mind so much if he didn't describe himself as a video games scholar.
Handful of professions? Seriously? Try absolutely everything technical.
The problem with Communications people is they think they're actually the majority.
I know some pretty well paid IT people without a college degree....
One of the best journalists I've ever worked with was a cabinetmaker by trade. But that doesn't mean that if you have a degree then you're a silly SJW. That's as stupid as actually believing West Virginians have no teeth and marry their siblings.
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George Stephenson, the designer of the first steam engine, didn't have a degree.
Neither did Thomas Andrews, the lead architect of The Titanic, nor for that matter did Adolf Hitler, the world-renowned social reformer.
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I'm sure there are hundreds if not thousands of McDonalds Customer Service Food Operatives with degrees.
What this guy is actually recommending is Affirmitive Action based not on race, but on education.
IOW, a typical liberal arts graduate solution
