I'm having a hard time thinking of a bigger waste of time than teaching cursive writing skills. I would rather them play Halo or just take a nap.

The Haves are the one who understand the difference between a job meant for part-time / high school / second earner employees, and those meant for breadwinners. Most Have-Nots probably understand this too, but who can fault them for trying to spin their situation in a way that makes someone else seem at fault for their plight?

In one of the few union jobs left most likely. Some will be safe for another 50 years, but many of those union jobs won't last another 10-20 (just look at the number we have lost in the past few decades). Off-shoring destroyed many of our union jobs. Technology will get rid of many more, and legislation will help the government to get rid of the rest. Almost anyone under the age of 40 is kidding themselves if they think it isn't a large gamble counting on their union job and pension will still being there until retirement.

Businesses had no other options when those union contracts were put into place decades ago (or even just years ago for government unions). Now they have offshoring, technology, and deregulation as weapons, and after the last financial crisis showed people how plush those union contracts were the unions no longer have public support.

There is nothing in this article recommending what to lie about or how to trick someone into dating you. It is about how to put your best foot forward online. It is no different than telling someone to dress nice when you first meet someone or don't talk about yourself too much on a first date.

It has advice like "ask open questions", "respond promptly", "introduce humor", "do smile", "pay genuine compliments", etc. Oh how manipulative these recommendations are!

Who cares if he proved that? It is irrelevant to the conversation. The only question is whether or not the degree is a factor in hiring. The original post by "sjbe" already conceded it might not be of primary concern.

So you are saying where you went to school is very important, since it has an impact on your early career. How you spend the first 5-10 years of your career has enormous impact on your entire career. There are obviously exceptions, but by definition most people are not exceptions.

Lol, touche.

The article says people who can show actual harm like the situation you just gave (which was also given in TFA) would probably have a good case for a lawsuit. Although they also mention that because the apology email was sent only a few hours after the mistaken acceptance letters were sent, it is unlikely anyone was harmed. Hopefully most students smart enough to get into Carnegie-Mellon are also smart enough to follow due diligence and verify their financial aid is in order before contacting other colleges and withdrawing their applications.

First off median household income is $51,939. Household income is a better measure of what a household can afford in housing. On top of that, someone with median income is not buying a median price home. Since a large portion of the lower income population rents, the median home buyer makes more than median income.

The middle class going away doesn't mean the American Dream is gone. The American Dream will actually become even better for the few who reach it. But the number who reach it will be less of course.

The 1% isn't the only group making gains in today's economy. The top 5-10% contains the VPs, directors, doctors, lawyers, senior engineers, etc. who are making out like bandits (although admittedly not as well as the 1%). The upper middle class barely existed 30 years ago, which is why you don't find many 50 year old McMansions. The deterioration of the middle class has gone both ways, with most people falling to the working class and a select few moving into the upper middle class.

Even if/when most jobs are gone, the top 20% who are still worth employing will be doing very well.

There will be work in the service sector for a very long time. As the gap between the upper middle class and working class grows, it will become more common for people to afford maids, nannies, lawn care guys, etc. My household income is in the upper 5% and I currently have a maid who comes in every other week and someone who takes care of my yard. Still don't have enough for a nanny (while still saving for retirement that is), but that is what I currently have planned for my next $20k bump in salary. 20 years from now someone in my current economic bracket will probably be able to easily afford a maid to come to his house a few times a day and take care of laundry, dishes, cooking, etc. instead of just cleaning floors and bathrooms a couple times a month.

If I had my guess the middle class as we know it today will not be here 30-40 years from now. It will be replaced by an increasingly large upper middle class and a much larger working class. The working class will survive on a combination of governmental redistribution of wealth and abundant resources from ever increasing worker productivity.

If you were just upset about people calling themselves electrical engineers when they are not, you would have a good point. But as others in this thread have already pointed out, none of the governing bodies you mentioned "own" the term engineer. Just like medical doctors don't own the term doctor; they have to share it with lawyers, audiologists, pharmacists, physicists, psychologists, etc.

The term engineer has shifted many times in the past few hundred years, and it will probably continue to shift. Many engineering disciplines do require licenses, but many do not. And many disciplines that do require licenses have plenty of waiver and exemption opportunities (like the industrial exemption). Software engineering even has an NCEES PE exam which was first offered in 2013, but like most engineering disciplines it is not a prerequisite to work in the industry. It may become required for some safety critical work in the future. I'm not sure how quickly the PE exam became required after it was introduced in 1966.

Cars don't have to be affordable for people to buy them. A family that needs two cars should have a household income of well over $100k per year before they should be buying $30k+ new cars (IHMO, and based on the 20/4/10 rule). But they probably only have to make median income to qualify for the loans.

The medical problems older people go through tend to be more expensive to treat than those caused by smoking (which tend to happen earlier in life also). There have been many studies which show both smoking and obesity end up saving money in the long term even if you only look at total lifetime medical costs. If you start factoring in social programs like Medicare and Social Security the savings become staggering.

While I admit I used wrong terminology when I called it a law, the FCC order still shows that the danger of regulation has been around for a long time. Later I found that the FCC first released a policy statement in 2005 stating its guidelines for an open internet. So the fact I used the word law incorrectly does not diminish the fact that companies have been worrying about net neutrality (or the lack thereof) for a long time.