No degree, please.
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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
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All this is way beyond the pale, IMO. Two very bad developments that took place many years ago have caused terrible damage, -- damage I don't see being fixed, and I fear won't be in the future.
Many years ago two things happened. One was television, the other was the stupidification of K-12 education. Television took a terrible toll on kids' brains. The reality they learned via television was, as we all know, very different from real reality. Even worse, they learned passivity. They learned that sometimes, you could talk to mom and get a response, and other times you talked to TV people and they ignored you like you weren't there. They learned this when they were too young to understand the difference. Kids don't spend a lot of time puzzling things out; they accept whatever the world lays down in front of them as gospel. They knew only that sometimes things worked one way and sometimes another, and they were left without the means to dismiss one and operate on the other.
They learned to see poorly. They learned to accept things happening in front of them that an older person could differentiate the real and the unreal.
They spent hours in front of the TV babysitter, and then they went to school, where they were taught many things, but not how to think. They sat and learned how to accept all day, and then they went home and the TV taught them how to accept some more.
The two entities fed each other.
The terrible thing, the thing that we are reaping the effects of now, is that they did not learn how to see.
The result is that we have millions of grownups who don't know how to see. Their interpretation of, well, everything is a godawful gemisch of fantasy and whatever is their half-assed inability to see what is legitimately there.
I'm not explaining it very well, but I've seen this all my life. And not for nuttin, I didn't watch television until my older childhood -- when I'd learned how to see the way nature intended. Coincidence? I think not.
By the time these people, so existentially and intellectually handicapped, reach college age, fuggedaboutit. The older they are, the dumber-downed the education needs to be.
Hence, the decreasing significance of the degree.
