Generally agree. You want I learn most from going to a left wing school studying Sociology. Critical thinking. No BS! A number of my professors told me you can challenge anything we say as long as you can back it up with logic. And I did at times. A few preached that Marxism was a good thing. I said look at the Soviet Union and tell me what motivation ppl. have to work hard when the get paid the same for producing crappy quality stuff? None. It's the same thing with brokers and investment bankers that didn't give a crap about CDS' a long as the could juice the price higher. No skin in the game just give me my bonus. Extremism in any form is bad whether its Capitalism or Communism/Socialism. Think about this. In the US few ever question authority. We are brought up to trust our leaders, blah, blah. The majority of people, especially Americans, especially, or easy to manipulate.
I'm inclined to disagree. I do understand the value of education, especially some universities. But there are also a large amount of schools who's student's graduate knowing not much more or less than they knew to begin with, and absolutely not worth the amount they've spent in tuition that they couldn't have from being disciplined readers and practitioners of a certain skill. As well, the real world is not a college campus. If you major in economics in college whith a minor in international business, you graduate and get a job assisting a MM, is your knowledge going to help you take orders better? No. Experience in the field will. Plenty of college degrees out there right now with no job and a masters in whatever.
while I am all for education, the last thing a degree teaches you is to think for yourself. it teaches you the hive mind, nothing more. You cant be serious, right>>
Ummmm.....air, earth, fire and water are compounds, made up of elements. I take it you skipped college?
Clearly something in this thread touched a nerve. Someone keeps creating throw-away usernames and using them to argue with themselves.
You're close but not quite there. Herein lies the problem. Banks want to get as many people in as much debt as they can and keep them there for as long as possible, much the way the Pharmaceutical Companies want to see every man, woman, and child consuming some sort of pill for the rest of their lives. For fuck's sake, they make up disorders and then produce a pill to treat it. That's what happens when a society shifts from Capitalism to Corporatism. Welcome to America, land of the enslaved. "Sign here."
Steve, you know as well as I do, you kids probably resent you for it now, but will thank you later. From 16-18 year old we were rich, but my Step Dad still made me work for an allowance and bought me a 10 year old car. I thought what a cheap bastard. Now I think back and appreciate it, at 40. Most of the kids, I knew, that got everything turned out to be flakey and irresponsible. As I mentioned, they paid for my college education, but told me to go jc first, and it was a smart idea.