Re: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)

[Piers Cawley]

Roger Burton West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:10:56PM -0400, Piers Cawley wrote:
> 
> >And while I'm about it, can I please kill anyone who complains that
> >our universities are 'too elitist?'. Excuse me? I thought that was the
> >whole point.
> 
> Oh, that's easy.
> 
> - Being employed is a good thing.
> - People with degrees are more likely to be employed, and to have higher
>   salaries, than people without.
> - Therefore everybody should have a degree, and miraculously they will all
>   be employed and have higher salaries.

Well, it's thinking like that that keeps the skills gap nice and wide.
Hmm... can't be all bad then.

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Piers Cawley
www.iterative-software.com