How the Ivy League Broke America

Re:How the Ivy League Broke America by bell-cot on Thursday November 14, 2024 @10:25AM (#42137093)

Yes...but the academic elitism poison has created some additional horrid problems:

4.) "Price No Object" college education. When a college turns itself into a luxury lifestyle club and gold-plated monument to its own glory, it needs to be fully reclassified and taxed as such.

5.) "College Degree Required" credential inflation. If the goal was to debt-burden and generally screw up the lives of average young people, while growing & enriching the whole college industry, I'd count this a huge success. Otherwise? No, FAIL.

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Re:How the Ivy League Broke America by boshalfoshal on Monday November 25, 2024 @03:01AM (#42234179)

For (5), at least in most modern software companies, this isn't actually a "requirement," but places end up having some distribution of people from top schools anyway.

This is usually just due to societal bias (oh, the guy from Harvard _must_ be good!), and honestly, on average, people who graduated from a top school (especially the ones that get in on merit and !legacy) are generally better than average.

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