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Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable
digitalhermit writes "A C student (not the programming language) has sued her former school because she has been unable to find a job in the three months since her graduation. Yup, some schools are degree mills, but this just seems... bizarre."
God, the sense of entitlement in the US is making me sick...
It's even more frequent in socialist-minded Europe (Russia included), where more than half of population have higher education (because it's mostly free, especially in post-communist countries). Then everyone expects to get an "advanced" job and despises menial labour or "low-level" technical jobs (like say, a car technician).
It all results in high unemployment ("advanced" jobs are rare by definition) for European "aborigines", while uneducated (but willing to work everywhere) migrants fill the labour market gap.
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I may be reading some political bias that isn't there into that statement, but... A "liberal arts degree"?
What are you trying to say? That degrees that get you "proper" jobs are Conservative? Or that degrees that once were thought to be worth something but were over-sold and after a financial crisis are now next-to-worthless "conservative" degrees?!
You know what?
My dad is an exec in a large multinational and he agrees with me that the US is doing it wrong. US workers are not more productive than european workers. Despite getting half the vacation allowance and being present in the office for far longer each week, they achieve LESS, in his experience.
You want more than a month because life and work are different things. You want more than a month because if you're working hard most of the time then you need it.
I took a month in one chunk last year, if I wasn't taking a six month career break starting december I'd be doing the same again this year.
You only get one life, feel free to spend yours in an office. I'll be diving in the caribbean.
Wicked lies. Bondholders lose out as inflation reduces the effective interest rate. Poor people don't have "assets" to speak of --- that's why they're poor. When wages keep pace with inflation, poor people at worst aren't affected.
As a small business owner, I bet you vote for the party that does though. That's disgusting. I've had enough of this kind of moral calculus: the kind of treatment works here receive is outright illegal in Western Europe. Society there hasn't collapsed: in fact, they're better off for it. So screw your pro-business rhetoric. There comes a point when being anti-business is also anti-people, but we're nowhere near that point.