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[BlueTX]

It’s a tough one for me tbh. I think I’d prefer public funding to advance interest/incentives in the stem fields, particularly making them more accessible to women. Idk as a tax payer that I’d want to pay for Steve to go get his philosophy degree or study poetry for 4 years only to struggle to find a job and likely not contribute much back. Make college more accessible but use some parameters rather than the blanket this seems like. It’s a little harsh, I know.

TBF, the number of undergraduate philosophy majors to complete their degree in the whole of the country in 2018 was fewer than 8000 and, overall, graduates in the humanities have been on the decline for more than a decade. Certainly a debate to be had about whether that is a good or bad thing for society overall.

Agree with you though about STEM and women. It's a huge need/opportunity. A neighbor's daughter was one of the few women in the computer science department at UT-Austin. From her freshman year to when she graduated she received highly paid internships around the country and wrote her ticket upon graduation. At 22 she was making more in salary than her college professor father or accountant mother.

 

[RAFUH]

It’s a tough one for me tbh. I think I’d prefer public funding to advance interest/incentives in the stem fields, particularly making them more accessible to women. Idk as a tax payer that I’d want to pay for Steve to go get his philosophy degree or study poetry for 4 years only to struggle to find a job and likely not contribute much back. Make college more accessible but use some parameters rather than the blanket this seems like. It’s a little harsh, I know.

I agree up to a point, because I believe all education has worth... beyond monetizing it. It's not an accident a society's/country's overall socioeconomic level rises with increasing education in the population. Support for democracy also rises with education.

On a micro level - there are often managerial positions that require a degree - any 4 yr degree - to even be considered, limiting the ability of someone to rise within a company. (As an aside, I'd much rather read the poet's quarterly report)

Community college and public/not-for-profit trade schools including CDL training should absolutely be 100% publicly funded and should have been decades ago.

 

[carolinablue232]

I agree up to a point, because I believe all education has worth... beyond monetizing it. It's not an accident a society's/country's overall socioeconomic level rises with increasing education in the population. Support for democracy also rises with education.

On a micro level - there are often managerial positions that require a degree - any 4 yr degree - to even be considered, limiting the ability of someone to rise within a company. (As an aside, I'd much rather read the poet's quarterly report)

Community college and public/not-for-profit trade schools including CDL training should absolutely be 100% publicly funded and should have been decades ago.

This thinking is a barrier that needs to be changed at the corporate level. Dealing with our HR department regularly does my head in. I wanted to promote someone on my team last year who was clearly ready for the next step but didn’t meet the pre reqs HR had for the position. In this case it was “years experience,” but sadly we do still have 4 year degree and in some cases masters degree reqs where I work.

 

[RAFUH]

This thinking is a barrier that needs to be changed at the corporate level. Dealing with our HR department regularly does my head in. I wanted to promote someone on my team last year who was clearly ready for the next step but didn’t meet the pre reqs HR had for the position. In this case it was “years experience,” but sadly we do still have 4 year degree and in some cases masters degree reqs where I work.

It isn't going to change. And I'll go there and say it is part of systemic racism and maintaining the status quo for lower socioeconomic classes, but the highest classes. Inherently "unAmerican" if anyone still holds the ideal of "anyone being able to rise up" in the US.

It stopped me at one point. "You're perfect for the position and already doing most of the job. If only you had a degree"

In fairness, it led me to getting my rear back in school to finish my bachelors and beyond.

 

[summerisle]

Capitalism 101.

 

[Rook]

 

[summerisle]

Nope, me neither. lol

 

[Taifi gorm]

Good to know roids, tanning salons, beauticians and cosmetics will still be available post apocalypse. Carlson would be the gimp on the front of the truck mad Max style.

 

[summerisle]

It's what Jebus would have wanted.

 

[Pittsburgh Footy]

This Melissa Lucio stuff is insane. How can the governor sleep at night?

 

[BlueTX]

This Melissa Lucio stuff is insane. How can the governor sleep at night?

No conscience.

True story: The (not-so) honorable Gov of this here state went to law school with a guy named Mark Phariss and they became good friends. As an example of the friendship, Phariss flew from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Houston the same day Abbott was involved in the accident that paralyzed him. They remained friends for decades. In 2014 Phariss, who is gay, joined as a plaintiff in the lawsuit to allow for same-sex marriage in Texas. The Attorney General defending the Texas law was, you guessed it, Greg Abbott. Abbott lost.

A few years later, Phariss ran as a Democrat for State Senate. He narrowly lost. Afterward, Abbott stopped sending him Christmas cards and hasn't spoken with him since.

Greg Abbott is a POS.

 

[BlueTX]

This Melissa Lucio stuff is insane. How can the governor sleep at night?

Melissa Lucio Granted Stay of Execution by Texas Court of Criminal Appeals - Innocence Project

innocenceproject.org

 

[Pittsburgh Footy]

Melissa Lucio Granted Stay of Execution by Texas Court of Criminal Appeals - Innocence Project

innocenceproject.org

Thankfully cooler heads prevailed here

 

[summerisle]

 

[summerisle]

She'd make a wonderful prole.