“Every paragraph is terrifying.”
One recent arrival says word has gotten out to new graduates that Washington is where the work is. “It’s a place where a liberal-arts major can still get a job,” she says, “because you don’t need a particular skill.”
Doesn’t that just say it all? Particularly when it comes to the president.
Well, that article explains a lot.
Some of the comments at the link are even scarier. They don’t see a problem.
Some of the comments at the link are even scarier. They don’t see a problem.
Yeah. However, that bubble will pop because it is unsustainable.
Government employment is one of the last refuges for angry studies majors. Who else in their right mind would want to bring toxic people into their organization?
I think that Tyler Cowen may have been a little bit tongue-in-cheek in his intro to the piece though.
These are the same kids that formerly took over computer science. All juveniles at some point think they know more than their elders. The problem is that today the elders have bought into that stupid idea as well.
Give ten y.o. the vote. That’ll fix it.
Ken,
I’d say the difference would be that many, not ALL, computer science grads had a marketable skill. If nothing else they could be trained to work a help desk.
The Lib Arts folks show up in D.C. with a degree in 17th Century French Romantic Poetry. I’m not sure how that translates into being trainable for ??????????????? Or ??????????????
And then there’s ????????????????????????
Most of the computer science students that used to work for me were more the skate rat, stoner, slacker types, than angry OWS Liberal Arts (rich) kids. If they showed up for work, they’d work.
On the flip side, we actually quit hiring liberal arts students because they invariably spent more time telling us how capitalism sucked and barking about how small their paychecks were because we were evil and kept ‘my money’, than they ever did actually working. I had three use that ‘my money’ line on me, I’m guessing it was from the same professor. I’m not sure how any of it was ‘their money’ if ‘we’ opened the business, ran the business, had the business for 2 years before they showed up at ‘the evil, capitalist, soul killing, money grubbing’ business.
I’d rather have ten thousand computer science types in D.C. than these idiots that the article describes.
The best programmers I’ve known never went to school for it. All I’m saying is kids have always had a point in their lives that they know everything and had to wait a few years to discover how smart their parents were.
The point is that we’ve now put those that ‘know everything’ in charge which is a huge dereliction of duty. We have a responsibility to slap sense into these idiots. We can’t allow a single instance of name calling slurs, of Breitbart for example, to stand unchallenged.
They are believers which is what makes them dangerous. We need to be swinging our cluebats like berzerkers until none are left standing. O’Reilly did that once to that gal from Salon and she’s never been back on his show. We need to go to their shows and make them squirm with no safe havens.
It would be ok if they just didn’t have a clue, but they also pull the strings of power. That can not stand.