This take is so incredibly tired.
What good would life be if we only had technical writers and PR people?
Further, why stop at college? Why not just predetermine who is likely to be most successful based on their parents, and not school certain kids at all? This is beyond a slippery slope, and it's always expressed by someone with a LOT of education, like a fucking professor of economics with a PhD from an Ivy League school.
My eyes couldn't be rolling harder. I have a successful career in tech of 20+ years, without a degree, and a HUGE amount of what's wrong with the culture of tech is that we are surrounded and led by folks who haven't studied sociology, political science, even economics, having HUMONGOUS impact on what those fields teach.
Far more rarely will you hear people for whom higher education was always out of reach say that we think it had nothing to offer us. It's a great privilege, but I definitely think society could benefit from trying to get more education in the hands of folks who would do something with it, instead of greedy little fuckshits who think studying art and literature is a waste of time.
I've been working in tech since I was 16 years old, and I can never get that time back. There are subjects which I'll never be as able to learn - particularly higher math - as I was at that age.
I was excited to dive into my career when I was young, but I do not feel it yielded the best life I could have had.
What good would life be if we only had technical writers and PR people?
Further, why stop at college? Why not just predetermine who is likely to be most successful based on their parents, and not school certain kids at all? This is beyond a slippery slope, and it's always expressed by someone with a LOT of education, like a fucking professor of economics with a PhD from an Ivy League school.
My eyes couldn't be rolling harder. I have a successful career in tech of 20+ years, without a degree, and a HUGE amount of what's wrong with the culture of tech is that we are surrounded and led by folks who haven't studied sociology, political science, even economics, having HUMONGOUS impact on what those fields teach.
Far more rarely will you hear people for whom higher education was always out of reach say that we think it had nothing to offer us. It's a great privilege, but I definitely think society could benefit from trying to get more education in the hands of folks who would do something with it, instead of greedy little fuckshits who think studying art and literature is a waste of time.
I've been working in tech since I was 16 years old, and I can never get that time back. There are subjects which I'll never be as able to learn - particularly higher math - as I was at that age.
I was excited to dive into my career when I was young, but I do not feel it yielded the best life I could have had.