This all started with an idiot post by Chris Rufo that "the economy is strong and income has never been higher." Why would someone in the Trump coalition say something so retarded not a couple months removed from the election? Because people are still mad about legally flooding the country with Indians. archive
Chris then kicked off the party in earnest by insisting that everything is doing great because someone, somewhere got a $70k job at Panda Express. archive
This is basically "full employment." The Panda Express near my house is offering $70k/yr plus benefits for the assistant manager. You can make $100k/yr working at Chipotle for a few years and working up to store manager.
People are talking about H-1B foreigners replacing American engineers AND THIS IS YOUR INPUT IN THE CONVERSATION??
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Boomercon influencer "Wanye Burkett" had a Helen of Troy moment that kicked this off (he deleted) (archive)
I literally don't care if the entire country burns down and everyone I love dies, that would be better than giving an inch to "right wing" 24-year-olds who are indistinguishable from progressives except they hate immigrants
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Matt Walsh appears, of course. No boomercon situation would be complete without the Daily Wire's Ron Swanson showing up to give us the astroturfed bearded family man position archive
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Reminder that Chris just hired a porn star lib for a $300k journalist position (archive)
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My absolute favorite part is Rufo retweeting a guy who did exactly what he's recommending (worked his way up to manager position in fast food) without reading the whole thread where the guy says it was a horrible experience that he would only wish on his worst enemies archive
If Vivek's "Saved by the Bell" post was his Waterloo, this is the Con Inc Pearl Harbor. The entire conservagrifter alliance turned out to get decimated on X. Bottom line is, nobody would be taking issue with "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" except the people preaching that want to import foreigners to replace the people they're talking to!!
"Learn to code" has now become "learn to shovel fried rice." Amazing economy!!
I don't think I buy that.
If the degree doesn't have any value, how does it further their path? If you're saying it had value, but only specialist value, I can see that. But obviously they had some value because most people didn't pursue them for fun.
It's not that the degree completely lacks value, so much as the bulk of the value is in the individual who was pursuing the degree and society mistakenly assumed that if everyone got a degree then everyone would attain the value of being someone with a high IQ.
They pursued it because it was the literal only path to learning more about microtransistors or whatever weird esoteric shit they were into. No books at the library on it, just some university course offered by one of four guys in the whole country who knew anything on the subject that they didn't already know. But you can't just throw any random student in there and expect them to be the same kind of person who was ending up there organically. The guy who ended up there organically goes on to do weird vector math and make Quake, whereas the average student goes on to make spreadsheets.
I get what you're saying now and I think we agree. We were just focused on different eras.
My mind had been stuck more in the Boomer's era, which I think is later than what you're talking about. The period where entry level jobs didn't require a degree, but management and up usually did. Or if you were going into a specialized field.
>vector math vs. spreadsheets
I don't know if that was a deliberately funny comparison, but if it was, nice.
I mean I'm just using comparisons drawn from my own experience. I'm just some mediocre code monkey doing simple things with .csv files or equally mundane stuff while John Carmack is off finding new ways to do math in order to optimize the Quake engine. We're not the same. He's the guy who would organically end up in a university because it was a means to an end while I ended up there because society told me to.
Oh. I just found it funny because spreadsheets are analogous to matrices and the similarities between a column/row and a vector are pretty striking. ie: SUMPRODUCT() is literally a dot product operator.