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Comment Re:What do you expect? (Score 1) 160

Good for you and your kid, I wish you the best. Although it's a bit of a stretch to generalize your single data point on to the whole society. But you are also missing his point. Yes you are right that a degree opens up many doors. That does not invalidate his experience hiring people. The shitshow is real, and it's real in more ways than what we are personally aware of.

The fact that college requires a lot of work does not go one step towards proving that the work is meaningful, nor that anything learned is useful on the job market. First we have the age old issue of college education being theoretical, with most teachers having zero real world experience in the fields they are teaching. Then you have more and more universities turning into paper mills, cashing in on the tragedy of commons that is the perceived value of a diploma in society.

Now for sure having a degree proves that you are able to learn some and work some, but whether that's applicable to a particluar job depends a lot on the job, the college, and of course, the graduate. Most classes in most colleges you can wing without much problem, although that's certainly less true in the more technical fields, and more self-respecting universities. But every year tons and tons of people who were only in it for the diploma graduate without having learned anything at all.

Even with a proper education, in a few years the graduate forgets everything they learned in college that they were not using daily at their job. As did you and me. So the value of the degree falls sharply. Once the guy has one or two employers on their CV, nobody cares about their college anymore, unless it's a legal requirement. The fact that the guy has managed to hold a job in the field, and get paid for it, is ten times more valuable than the degree. So don't be surprised that employers who care about results only start disregarding it.

Comment Re:The real issue (Score 2) 159

With the house prices rising as they are, with all of the housing being bought up by hedge funds as it is, and with gen z never going to have enough money to buy homes... 100% of the cars are going to be owned by people who rent their homes, soon enough. And that's the best case scenario - since it's not obvious that gen z is going to be able to own cars even, maybe those will belong to hedge funds, too.

Comment Re:Dilemma (Score 0, Troll) 95

Or do what Bill does, build up a farmland and and intellectual property empire under the guise of "charity". Just yesterday we had this news when Bill called out Elon as the richest guy on Earth killing the poorest children on Earth... Bill mad because it's his job!

If he plans to give away his money... and he wants to eradicate polio... why not eradicate it himself? Why does he want the US govt to chip in to something that he could do himself without taking a noticable hit on his bottom line? Because he's only into it to make money, that's it.

When Oxford created a Corona vaccine, they were set out to give it away free. That was the right thing to do. In came Bill and convinced them to turn it into an orgy, milking billions of govt^W taxpayer money in a time of need. Bill could have footed the bill (no pun intended) of manufacturing and distributing the vaccine all over the world. That would have been a charity, and easy enough for him.

And lets not forget every time we see him in the news with them African kids... he's again solving their problems with an intellectual property venture. He's still the same evil Machiavellian mastermind he ever was.

Charity, English (US), noun. A tax avoidance and public relations scheme.

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