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Thread: Student Loan Forgiveness
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05-03-2022, 09:22 AM #251
No, the goal of attending college is to explore intellectual activities and demonstrate a thoroughness of approach and hard work. It is to deviate from the norm, not be absorbed by the norm.
So, despite hemorrhaging thousands of dollars to pay for my kids college, I'd be in faver of a blanket forgiveness.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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05-03-2022, 09:25 AM #252Registered User
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05-03-2022, 09:29 AM #253Registered User
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smoke a bowl read the paper drink coffee start work at 715 sit in front of the computer shuffle paper work around do some estimates and bullshit walk the dog post on tgr
smoke another bowl drive around talk to people call people on the phone meet with customers ruin their dreams and play a game in my head called wondering if they think I'm high or not
took a long time to get to this place in life but it's worth it
because the real struggle today is do I order a skid plate for my tranny or not? that's my real problem I need to address
Then I go ride my bike at 6pm
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05-03-2022, 09:54 AM #254click here
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I'm just a STEM major, so please help me understand the social contract. Where I sit, it appears you've placed the cart before the horse. The social contract requires contributors. The STEM majors are vastly improving their ability to contribute. The art history/philosophy double major slinging coffee at Starbucks... I'm puzzled how their studies add much at all to society. Surely their GED was sufficient to sling coffee, and the 5 year/$200k "investment" is more than a lost cause, it's also an opportunity cost in the 5 years of coffee slinging that could have been provided, and the $200k loss that could have been spent on a social purpose.
Whatever we do with student loans, negative social value decisions should be discouraged.
Or maybe I missed your sarcasm. So hard to tell in modern life.
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05-03-2022, 09:58 AM #255Registered User
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you people need to deal with the wealthy on a daily basis it's good for you to be around people who have money to spend and don't belittle others because of life choices
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05-03-2022, 10:04 AM #256
They’re employees
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05-03-2022, 10:09 AM #257
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05-03-2022, 10:38 AM #258Registered User
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think about all the artsy shit that needs to happen to get a case of macro beer to the store shelves ?
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05-03-2022, 10:42 AM #259
That's why I said "USED to be." Reading comprehension fail.
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05-03-2022, 11:00 AM #260
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05-03-2022, 11:17 AM #261
Unlike on the highway where the speed check signs are posted, I don't need to be alerted to the sarcasm meter test.
The focus on the immediate return has almost extinguished the kinds of research on which we base our lives, semiconductors, infrared tech, digital audio, etc.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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05-03-2022, 11:24 AM #262
one of our problems as americans is measuring everything solely by financial value
the next societal breakthrough for us as humans is cresting that threshold to show the value of humanism
pursuing ROI is just a sociopathic dive into an anti-human society (evidence? everything we consider wrong with modern society...lol)
please don't label me as the guy who says money isn't of value. But, let's get real about its priority: using it as the only measuring stick is predictably self-harming to our "life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness"
i mean, it's right there in the declaration of independence, right?
"pursuit of happiness"
pursuit of money is a subheading by definition, not the headliner...
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05-03-2022, 11:25 AM #263I drink it up
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To-may-to, to-mah-to. Does every policy, economic, or social discussion have to be included in that umbrella? Whether or not we agree that it’s political, maybe we can keep the asshattery out of it?
And I think society benefits by encouraging (or at least allowing) some folk to pursue art and music and history and philosophy and all that other stuff. Or do we just want the rich people driving those discussions?focus.
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05-03-2022, 11:33 AM #264Hucked to flat once
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I think Kanye would like a word with you.
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05-03-2022, 11:35 AM #265
I concur
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05-03-2022, 12:03 PM #266
ROI isn’t just money it’s also time, time invested, return over what time. Years ago (back when the millionaire next door was a thing) the data presented to me was architects had a lower starting salary than architectural engineers, but after 30-50 years architects were earning significantly more. What and where does time matter?
on a similar note a relative, now retired, has a divinity degree which is perhaps the shittiest paying degree. He found it greatly fulfilling being a pastor. Does religion not matter?
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05-03-2022, 01:40 PM #267click here
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Yes (and I'm anti-religion). Kids find video games fulfilling. We still focus on teaching reading, writing, math, etc. There's nothing wrong with teaching a little video games, and we do need a few pro-gamers. For the average kid, focusing on video games will lead them to ruin. We should encourage better choices
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05-03-2022, 01:46 PM #268
Plenty of people miss the fact that some work is lucrative simply because no one wants to do it. It doesn't make it better or more useful than other things, just supply and demand. I'd also say that a fair bit of STEM degrees are more at risk to AI than some other disciplines as they boil down to "do special math/software to design to fulfill a certain spec" which is a solvable problem for AI given proper dimensional inputs and training.
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05-03-2022, 02:14 PM #269
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05-03-2022, 03:27 PM #270Registered User
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“I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematicks and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, musick, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelaine.”
John Adams, 1780
Edited to add: after a few generations of everyone studying porcelaine and art history, then we need people to study politicks and war again apparently.
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05-03-2022, 04:31 PM #271I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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05-03-2022, 04:35 PM #272Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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05-03-2022, 04:41 PM #273
art & porcelain: we’ll cash millions in checks and spend centuries celebrating victories and promoting politics and war
tgr: derp
i get this place is anti high culture, but never been to Versailles? It’s a monument of politics. There’s even a gallery of great battles. Get your eyes off the jelly rolled Reubens tits at the museum for a few minutesLast edited by dunfree ; 05-03-2022 at 06:24 PM.
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05-03-2022, 05:56 PM #274
Good buddy of mine was an art history major. Sold drugs to get through college. Now he’s a project manager for one of the largest construction firms in the Bay Area. I took an art history class my freshman year, was really hard. Like either you got an A+ or failed. Taking that class helped me out a lot in my college career. But now I’m just an electrician at a ski resort.
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05-03-2022, 06:04 PM #275
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