‘There Are Two Americas Now: One With a B.A. and One Without’

[Hawkeye10]

Some students still choose to do science, technology, engineering, math at university. Their minds have been wrecked, you think?

The WOKE are well on their way to taking over stem and the Universities research operations have long been a disaster along with the advanced science degree programs.

Here it is both Mind Molding and Exploitation, now increasingly it is all bullshit as well.

Bret and Heather talk about this constantly.

 

[McRocket]

Case and Deaton contend that the ballots cast for Donald Trump by members of the white working class “are surely not for a president who will dismantle safety nets but against a Democratic Party that represents an alliance between minorities — whom working-class whites see as displacing them and challenging their once solid if unperceived privilege — and an educated elite that has benefited from globalization and from a soaring stock market, which was fueled by the rising profitability of those same firms that were increasingly denying jobs to the working class.”

Education divides everything, including connection to the labor market, marriage, connection to institutions (like organized religion), physical and mental health, and mortality. It does so for whites, Blacks and Hispanics. There has been a profound (not yet complete) convergence in life expectancy by education. There are two Americas now: one with a B.A. and one without.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/opinion/mortality-penalty-inequality-education.html

What a coincidence.
Just like there are two BidenPresident's.

The one who tries to appear rational.
And the one who threatens to/hopes other posters will get 'beaten to death'.

https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...s-HEAVILY-FAVOR-THE-GOP&p=5309794#post5309794

I await your - as per usual - simplistic, ad hominem response.

 

[McRocket]

Case and Deaton contend that the ballots cast for Donald Trump by members of the white working class “are surely not for a president who will dismantle safety nets but against a Democratic Party that represents an alliance between minorities — whom working-class whites see as displacing them and challenging their once solid if unperceived privilege — and an educated elite that has benefited from globalization and from a soaring stock market, which was fueled by the rising profitability of those same firms that were increasingly denying jobs to the working class.”

Education divides everything, including connection to the labor market, marriage, connection to institutions (like organized religion), physical and mental health, and mortality. It does so for whites, Blacks and Hispanics. There has been a profound (not yet complete) convergence in life expectancy by education. There are two Americas now: one with a B.A. and one without.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/opinion/mortality-penalty-inequality-education.html

1) 55 Billionaires That Dropped Out of School (No College Degree)
https://www.profitableventure.com/school-drop-out-billionaires-successful-entrepreneurs/


2) and if these ivory tower egomaniacs think that after the Great Recession 'a soaring stock market, which was fueled by the rising profitability of those same firms...'?
And not 'fueled by' the central banks with their myriad of QE's and ZIRP's?
They are macroeconomic ignoramuses...period.

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2020/09/the-feds-balance-sheet/
https://disqusrefugees.squarespace....althy-americans-and-left-behind-everyone-else
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/04/26/federal-reserve-interest-rates-inequality/


So much for that seemingly, useless article.

Next!

 

[SmarterthanYou]

BA's are nothing more than participation trophies for those that can't hack real world productivity.

 

[Grokmaster]

Case and Deaton contend that the ballots cast for Donald Trump by members of the white working class “are surely not for a president who will dismantle safety nets but against a Democratic Party that represents an alliance between minorities — whom working-class whites see as displacing them and challenging their once solid if unperceived privilege — and an educated elite that has benefited from globalization and from a soaring stock market, which was fueled by the rising profitability of those same firms that were increasingly denying jobs to the working class.”

Education divides everything, including connection to the labor market, marriage, connection to institutions (like organized religion), physical and mental health, and mortality. It does so for whites, Blacks and Hispanics. There has been a profound (not yet complete) convergence in life expectancy by education. There are two Americas now: one with a B.A. and one without.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/opinion/mortality-penalty-inequality-education.html

A BA is for students not intelligent enough to earn a BS. Like you.

 

[Walt]

A BA is for students not intelligent enough to earn a BS. Like you.

Jordan Peterson got a BA.

 

[BidenPresident]

1) 55 Billionaires That Dropped Out of School (No College Degree)
https://www.profitableventure.com/school-drop-out-billionaires-successful-entrepreneurs/


2) and if these ivory tower egomaniacs think that after the Great Recession 'a soaring stock market, which was fueled by the rising profitability of those same firms...'?
And not 'fueled by' the central banks with their myriad of QE's and ZIRP's?
They are macroeconomic ignoramuses...period.

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2020/09/the-feds-balance-sheet/
https://disqusrefugees.squarespace....althy-americans-and-left-behind-everyone-else
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/04/26/federal-reserve-interest-rates-inequality/


So much for that seemingly, useless article.

Next!

fuck you asshole. tired or your trolling. ignore

 

[martin]

There are those who allowed their minds to be molded/wrecked at the failed universities, and those who did not.

Dummies will naturally "thank" this rubbish.

 

[Guno צְבִי]

 

[Walt]

Can't read the link because I won't subscribe to the NYT: the center of white liberalism. Very telling that you are subscribed to it.

Regarding the BA. Among those who contribute to societies wealth and protection of it, the BA is seen as a bullshit degree. Here's a typical listing:

Anthropology
Art History
Business
Communications
Criminal Justice
Education
English
General Studies
Geography
Graphic Design
History
Human Services
Information Technology
Liberal Arts
Music Production
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Religious Studies
Sociology

Of the few that contribute to societal wealth or the protection thereof, most have BS alternatives where a student is likely to have far more success.

Jordan Peterson has a BA in psychology. DeSantis has a BA in history. I could go on, but you get the point.

 

[martin]

People who call Jordan Peterson stupid would say anything, nothing they have to say after that matters.

Jordan Peterson is a political extremist, or was. Severe depression reportedly forced him from the scene some time ago, to the regret of such estimable publications as...The Daily Wire. Colleges and universities are not all the same, believe it or not. Many still are receiving more qualified enrollment applications than they can admit. Many are producing quality graduates. Cost is the biggest problem at universities. A more general problem is the dumbing down of popular culture in the age of social media, and it hasn't helped having a colossal ignoramus named Trump at its top the last six years.

 

[Cypress]

The people who complain the most about university education and liberal arts degrees tend to be people who never graduated college.

Degrees acquired by people in my immediate family include art history, English, music, sociology, graphic design, Slavic studies. Exactly zero of them had careers at Starbucks or Taco Bell.

 

[Bigdog]

Did you play it?

Long but good.

Yep, and I didn't know she was a lesbian.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

The people who complain the most about university education and liberal arts degrees tend to be people who never graduated college.

Degrees acquired by people in my immediate family include art history, English, music, sociology, graphic design, Slavic studies. Exactly zero of them had careers at Starbucks or Taco Bell.

right, LOL. I'm also told by certain people here that one can't have a successful and lucrative career without going to college, or at least obtaining 'official' education in the field.......i'm guessing that is supposed to mean attending 'official' classes and graduating or something..........

we all know that's a fucking lie

 

[Cypress]

right, LOL. I'm also told by certain people here that one can't have a successful and lucrative career without going to college, or at least obtaining 'official' education in the field.......i'm guessing that is supposed to mean attending 'official' classes and graduating or something..........

we all know that's a fucking lie

You can search until the cows come home and you won't find any posts from me saying electricians, welders, and small business entrepreneurs can't have a successfull and financially rewarding life.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

You can search until the cows come home and you won't find any posts from me saying electricians, welders, and small business entrepreneurs can't have a successfull and financially rewarding life.

though I replied to your post, I wasn't specifically pointing to you. for that, I apologize. there's a certain someone on this board who knows that i'm talking to them.........since they make such an issue out of higher education.

 

[Celticguy]

The liberal arts colleges are getting crushed first.....they have nothing to offer.....they are political enterprises now.

BAs have become the butt of jokes and for good reason.

Heck, I have one and its been as useless as claimed.

So yes, its easy to see that the left have an over abundance of BAs while the right has an over abundance of BSs.

Any wonder why its the left begging for student loan forgiveness ? Cant make enough money to make the payments.

 

[Hawkeye10]

BAs have become the butt of jokes and for good reason.

Heck, I have one and its been as useless as claimed.

So yes, its easy to see that the left have an over abundance of BAs while the right has an over abundance of BSs.

Any wonder why its the left begging for student loan forgiveness ? Cant make enough money to make the payments.

And if the goal to to gain WOKE Commissar Accreditation one needs to be in a program set up just for that, in a grievance studies program. Liberal Arts has no purpose in WOKE.

 

[Flash]

Case and Deaton contend that the ballots cast for Donald Trump by members of the white working class “are surely not for a president who will dismantle safety nets but against a Democratic Party that represents an alliance between minorities — whom working-class whites see as displacing them and challenging their once solid if unperceived privilege — and an educated elite that has benefited from globalization and from a soaring stock market, which was fueled by the rising profitability of those same firms that were increasingly denying jobs to the working class.”

Education divides everything, including connection to the labor market, marriage, connection to institutions (like organized religion), physical and mental health, and mortality. It does so for whites, Blacks and Hispanics. There has been a profound (not yet complete) convergence in life expectancy by education. There are two Americas now: one with a B.A. and one without.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/opinion/mortality-penalty-inequality-education.html

A lot of this description fits the Hillbilly Elegy book/movie explanation of the Trump movement. It was written by J. D. Vance who was anti-Trump but now the Republican candidate for Senate in OH.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

There are those who allowed their minds to be molded/wrecked at the failed universities, and those who did not.

Translation: There are those with BAs and then there are drunken Chinese bots without.

I have both a BA and an MS. It was the Marine Corps that molded my mind and I turned out okay.