>> On average, Democrats possess more advanced college degrees than Republicans do.
So, you don't get the silliness in that comment. I got nothing against advanced degrees, I have a couple myself. So, I'm down with it if that is what some people want.
But it is a serious mistake to exchange that idea for intellect or capability or even knowledge.
I can't begin to tell you the number of people with advanced psychology degrees I've known. Half of them can't do basic statistics and have no real contribution to helping people. Many are doing entirely unrelated jobs. Economics degrees are even more meaningless. (Look at Kam, herself).
My dad had an 8th grade education, but understood more about microeconomics than any educated person I ever knew. Stuff you get from being orphaned at 12 during the Great Depression. With his 8th grade education he understood all there was to know about marginal cost, marginal revenue, and that you'll maximize your profits by equalizing them. No one needed to tell him that.
Do you think Kam knows as much as old dad did? Does she know what makes a business run? And keeps it alive, even through the hardest of times? Shit no.
When I talk about "education", we tend to think in terms of a university setting. But REAL education is about the esoteric nature of learning shit the hard way. It is great my daughter got her PhD, but there is nothing like watching her help profoundly autistic children learn to communicate with techniques she developed independently of her education.
Saying a group is educated saying, "I took six years away from learning a learning a skill so I could learn theory".
There is a reason the most intelligent and accomplished person in the world today, Musk, discounts the need for formal education. Those aren't his hiring criteria.
But as long as you're making an "appeal to authority", if Trump is good enough for Musk, he's good enough for me. Kamala isn't. |
