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'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: U.S. graduate business schools -- once magnets for American and international students seeking a certain route to a high income -- are in an existential crisis. They are losing droves of students who are balking at sky-high tuition and, in the case of international applicants, turned off by President Trump's politics. The once-venerated MBA is going the way of the diminished law degree, pushed aside by tech education. Graduates of the top 25 or so MBA schools still command the elite Wall Street and corporate jobs they always did, but the hundreds of others are scrambling, and some schools are shutting down their programs. Survivors are often offering new touchy-feely degrees like "master of social innovation." [...] In the more than 350 programs that didn't make the top ranks, rising tuition costs and smaller returns in the form of employment and income have forced a rethink of the traditional MBA degree.
Thanksgiving is a day when we in the United States demonstrate to the rest of the world just how utterly superior we are to everyone else. Not only do we take a day off of work, we make it a Thursday so we can take TWO days off. We cook the biggest, juicy bird this side of Australia. And then we fucking stuff it. At that point, are we done? Is that good enough? Fuck no. Oh, hell no. We watch football, and we drink. We drink a lot. Mostly wine, but always brandy after dinner. So then, we sleep in... and then we go out the next morning and spend a SHIT ton of money. I'm talking about more money than people in other countries even spend during the entire Christmas season... and we do it in one day. You always have to spend more than the douchbag ahead of you in line at the mall. Friday evening, you retire to the couch and the computer and max out the fucking credit cards. And then we get an entire 'normal' weekend to do normal weekend stuff. That's the true meaning of Thanksgiving, and why America is the greatest country on earth. #MAGA