Actually it's the result of progress. We have an expanding population, increasing automation, increasing productivity and the erosion of careers. Something has to give at some point. Education costs have gone north - 40 years ago you had calculators and textbooks, these days the textbooks are still there but the calculators have given way to computers and printers - for both the student and the education system. Globalization has kicked the doors down of protective careers, and yeah it hurts, but if it means the dirt poor of Africa and Asia get an opportunity to be less dirt poor and see their kids start up the road we did I think we're big enough to deal with that. Especially as both places owe no small amount of their current situations to European adventures. Technology has improved productivity and replaced jobs meaning reduced employment opportunities. Physical labour is drying up as machines take over, before long they'll start taking on non-physical roles too. Machines that can code will see programming start to fade, and programming languages die off. I'm using a system that replaces data entry, my script has a 90% success rate compared to a data enterer - but it doesn't go for fag breaks, need to take a shit or knock off to go home. Saves money by reducing jobs. Welcome to the future. We're going to see a split between more menial tasks that machine can't do or we don't want them to do, and those who develop the machines that do things. Society needs to change - either shrink in size, for the Malthusians amongst us, or adapt. Or die.
A moment of serendipity! Was reading the Judge Dredd taster (2000AD have released the casebooks - bar Burger Wars and Giants Aren't Gentlemen due to issues with real companies - on iOS) and the second story involves the crime of having more than one job in a society where unemployment is rife. I'm sure that one is in the works! Second tale, 'Suspect', here - legit link, not pir-argh-ated.
Your school sucked at that then. Maybe it's because I got to start using the leading skills they were talking about in my classroom so I remember them. I haven't taken a sales course yet but it has been touched on already. Maybe you should stop talking and start doing.
Oh, I am doing. I'm just commenting as well. This is a big hairball of a problem. Part of it is that a degree is worth less because what is being sold is the degree, not the skills conferred. I know a girl who is a college professor. This summer she was bemoaning having to have a meeting with one of her students who'd missed more than half the term, at least one paper, and the final. My friend would have liked to fail her or at least have her retake the class, but her superiors wanted my friend to arrange for a way for the student to make up the work. After all, the customer is always right, right? The other side of it is that the customer isn't in it for the skills either. They are also there for the piece of paper and the line on the resume. It would be interesting if students held schools more accountable for results. Which raises an interesting idea: Would I take my diploma down off the wall in front of me, gather up my receipts, and march down to the Dean's office and try to return it for a refund? I don't think I would, but if you did you could probably get on the local news. On a slow day one of the nationals might even pick you up for the "before we go, a dog that rides a scooter" bit. And that wouldn't be good for your school's PR.
