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Re:Putting Kids in Debt by PubliusMI on Monday October 24, 2022 @12:06PM (#33318520)
If we closed down the paper mills and handed out those pieces of paper only to students with genuine academic talent... it practically would guarantee a job, as it once did!
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Re:Putting Kids in Debt by munificent on Monday October 24, 2022 @12:28PM (#33318827)
> only to students with genuine academic talent

All the other people that you would describe as not having "genuine academic talent" need to put food on the table too.

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Re:Putting Kids in Debt by PubliusMI on Monday October 24, 2022 @01:20PM (#33319526)
TFW either you go to Yale or you go to jail
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Re:Putting Kids in Debt by WirelessGigabit on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:42PM (#33324172)
Question is whether they should get a degree. Is the investment worth the return? Not to mention bringing down the value of a genuinely good person because now there’s someone cheaper on the market.
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