Networking? You network with your teachers who know plenty of people in industry. My physics professor said his friend was looking for a summer intern in geoengineering and it would pay really good money since it required you to travel the entire summer. Sadly, I had to turn it down because I need an actual REU over the summer.
...have you never seen someone who learns more from hands on than lecture? Cause I have which is exactly the opposite from the way I am best at learning.
Start colonizing other worlds, encourage more and more birth rates, turn the Earth into a Hive World and then spread across the galaxy, we have to do something otherwise the Orks, Eldar, Tyranids, Tau and all the others will wipe us out.
Except that payroll taxes are required by law to go to social security and medicare. True, it has been raided in the past, but should we really rob our grandparents to keep the wealthy from getting taxed a little more?
Yeah, because there is never momentum in an economy. It couldn't possibly be that the 2.5% increase in unemployment is from the momentum of the recession that occurred on Bush's watch when Republicans let two major bubbles form in the housing and financial markets. At least under Obama, the hemorrhaging of jobs stopped.
there is a sizeable portion of poor LEGAL american citizens who have no form of ID, since when are we required to carry ID with us at all times to prove our innocence?
I don't think Zeitgeist should be considered a valid authority to appeal to. That movie is so full of inaccuracies and wrongful assumptions it was ridiculous.
To stop the subprime mortgage crisis would have just took the federal government saying, no, you can't do that. You can't give out mortgages to people who have little hope of making payments beyond 2 years. In this instance, the government regulating the market just a little bit would have prevented a lot of damage.
I dunno, not interfering in the housing market might have been a boom for a little bit, but no regulation of mortgage banks did cause a global recession that wiped away all that economic growth and then some.
Oh that is easy then, require all CEO's of corporations in America to have to spend at least half the year in America They will still want to do business in the American market so even if they super rich leave who pay little taxes now anyway, the moderately rich will be forced to stay and they actually pay heavy taxes.
Science just explains the way that God chose to do things, we are merely revealing how he did it all. I would like to see you explain evolution to humans 4000 years ago when they have no idea about genes.
if high school diplomas are worthless, then there would be no increase in pay for those who have them over those who don't. according to your own evidence, it seems a high school diploma is worth about $7500 a year, or an additional $225,000 dollars over 30 years aka a house. You claim that it is the scarcity of degrees that make them more valuable, but that ignores the part that there has to be a demand for them, toxic waste is pretty scarce but it isn't very valuable because nobody wants it. If a degree didn't offer something employers wanted ie an education, then those that hold those degrees wouldn't pay more for them. An example is social workers, they require college degrees but since nobody really wants them (though we do need them) even with a college degree they get paid poorly compared to other degree holders.
You claim in the same sentence that requiring everyone to have degrees would lower the median income yet drive up inflation. Generally, you can have one or the other baring all outside influences, the less people have to pay, the less businesses can charge for something.
i also maintain, that if you take someone who previously would only get their high school diploma and send them to college for two more years to learn more math, science, computer skills and such, they will become a more valuable member of society.
but that doesn't address the fact that 50 years of working waiting for the chance of retirement is a long time. what happens if humans live an additional 10 years on average in the next century and retirement is pushed back further, 60 years they will have to work now?
also, a lot of the "degree inflation" you are talking about has nothing to do with the number of degrees out there. It has to do with things like more and more jobs are technical, for every engineering job out there created requires an additional person to have at least their bachelors in engineering to fill and engineering is one field that is growing faster than the national average.
and your same argument was used against mandatory secondary education for students, yet America is a much better place for having more high school graduates. To say that having a more educated populace is a bad thing doesn't seem to be the reality.
or they could do something novel and expand acadamia and research opportunities, that would make for them to be useful. More national laboratories, more universities! The more people you have looking at a wider array of problems the more likely you are to answer more questions.
don't forget that places will not hire you a lot of the times if you have too high of a degree since you are much more likely to leave that job should a better one come up.
I thought the purpose of the PhD was to show that you were capable of doing high level research and being able to publish your results in a defensible manner showing that you are fully capable of being a contributing member to the scientific community?
I would argue that due to a longer lifespan that we currently enjoy, students should be made to stay in school even longer ie make getting your associates a mandatory party of your education and then maybe in the future your bachelors and for those not smart enough to do that Trade schools and OTJ training. The reason for this is twofold. First is that new jobs created are becoming increasingly technical and require further knowledge of the subject. The second reason is, that someone leaving high school today at age 17, to retirement at age 67 would have to work 50 years at a job, that is 20 years longer at a job than anyone should have to work. A byproduct of the second result is now you have a more educate and skilled, but smaller workforce to make up for any jobs lost and to demand higher wages.
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Networking? You network with your teachers who know plenty of people in industry. My physics professor said his friend was looking for a summer intern in geoengineering and it would pay really good money since it required you to travel the entire summer. Sadly, I had to turn it down because I need an actual REU over the summer.
How can he have a trial by his peers? All his peers are in Britain...
...have you never seen someone who learns more from hands on than lecture? Cause I have which is exactly the opposite from the way I am best at learning.
Start colonizing other worlds, encourage more and more birth rates, turn the Earth into a Hive World and then spread across the galaxy, we have to do something otherwise the Orks, Eldar, Tyranids, Tau and all the others will wipe us out.
Why do you hate your grandparents?
Except that payroll taxes are required by law to go to social security and medicare. True, it has been raided in the past, but should we really rob our grandparents to keep the wealthy from getting taxed a little more?
Yeah, because there is never momentum in an economy. It couldn't possibly be that the 2.5% increase in unemployment is from the momentum of the recession that occurred on Bush's watch when Republicans let two major bubbles form in the housing and financial markets. At least under Obama, the hemorrhaging of jobs stopped.
...let's dredge the ocean floor, history has shown us that has zero ecological impact :rollseyes:
A child brought across the border committed no crime, their parent did, yet they are still an illegal immigrant.
there is a sizeable portion of poor LEGAL american citizens who have no form of ID, since when are we required to carry ID with us at all times to prove our innocence?
The next step is probably to ban all lip synching or otherwise singing along with a song.
...if sony came out and apologized for being asshats and promising to never do it again.
I don't think Zeitgeist should be considered a valid authority to appeal to. That movie is so full of inaccuracies and wrongful assumptions it was ridiculous.
To stop the subprime mortgage crisis would have just took the federal government saying, no, you can't do that. You can't give out mortgages to people who have little hope of making payments beyond 2 years. In this instance, the government regulating the market just a little bit would have prevented a lot of damage.
I dunno, not interfering in the housing market might have been a boom for a little bit, but no regulation of mortgage banks did cause a global recession that wiped away all that economic growth and then some.
Oh that is easy then, require all CEO's of corporations in America to have to spend at least half the year in America They will still want to do business in the American market so even if they super rich leave who pay little taxes now anyway, the moderately rich will be forced to stay and they actually pay heavy taxes.
No, because I wouldn't be caught dead working for Comcast-NBC.
Science just explains the way that God chose to do things, we are merely revealing how he did it all. I would like to see you explain evolution to humans 4000 years ago when they have no idea about genes.
yeah, and everyone can have a right to privacy...as long as they never leave their homes.
if high school diplomas are worthless, then there would be no increase in pay for those who have them over those who don't. according to your own evidence, it seems a high school diploma is worth about $7500 a year, or an additional $225,000 dollars over 30 years aka a house. You claim that it is the scarcity of degrees that make them more valuable, but that ignores the part that there has to be a demand for them, toxic waste is pretty scarce but it isn't very valuable because nobody wants it. If a degree didn't offer something employers wanted ie an education, then those that hold those degrees wouldn't pay more for them. An example is social workers, they require college degrees but since nobody really wants them (though we do need them) even with a college degree they get paid poorly compared to other degree holders.
You claim in the same sentence that requiring everyone to have degrees would lower the median income yet drive up inflation. Generally, you can have one or the other baring all outside influences, the less people have to pay, the less businesses can charge for something.
i also maintain, that if you take someone who previously would only get their high school diploma and send them to college for two more years to learn more math, science, computer skills and such, they will become a more valuable member of society.
but that doesn't address the fact that 50 years of working waiting for the chance of retirement is a long time. what happens if humans live an additional 10 years on average in the next century and retirement is pushed back further, 60 years they will have to work now?
also, a lot of the "degree inflation" you are talking about has nothing to do with the number of degrees out there. It has to do with things like more and more jobs are technical, for every engineering job out there created requires an additional person to have at least their bachelors in engineering to fill and engineering is one field that is growing faster than the national average.
and your same argument was used against mandatory secondary education for students, yet America is a much better place for having more high school graduates. To say that having a more educated populace is a bad thing doesn't seem to be the reality.
or they could do something novel and expand acadamia and research opportunities, that would make for them to be useful. More national laboratories, more universities! The more people you have looking at a wider array of problems the more likely you are to answer more questions.
don't forget that places will not hire you a lot of the times if you have too high of a degree since you are much more likely to leave that job should a better one come up.
I thought the purpose of the PhD was to show that you were capable of doing high level research and being able to publish your results in a defensible manner showing that you are fully capable of being a contributing member to the scientific community?
I would argue that due to a longer lifespan that we currently enjoy, students should be made to stay in school even longer ie make getting your associates a mandatory party of your education and then maybe in the future your bachelors and for those not smart enough to do that Trade schools and OTJ training. The reason for this is twofold. First is that new jobs created are becoming increasingly technical and require further knowledge of the subject. The second reason is, that someone leaving high school today at age 17, to retirement at age 67 would have to work 50 years at a job, that is 20 years longer at a job than anyone should have to work. A byproduct of the second result is now you have a more educate and skilled, but smaller workforce to make up for any jobs lost and to demand higher wages.