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No, Donald Trump is proof that you can just buy yourself a degree. That has nothing to do with being educated and everything to do with higher learning is a scam in the U.S.
Yes some higher learning is a scam, and some is just for the contacts one acquires. Trump, as awful as he is, does seem to be objectively successful, so he's not really such a great example. I'd love to just blame his inheritance on his success but clearly he has some ability to raise support from idiots. There are certainly higher learning paths that are very real, like medical, engineering, lawl, some humanities, and some commerce.
You've obviously never talked to a business major for any length of time. He has confidence, which is what the "Con" in conartist comes from.
And con artists are usually quite well educated. Maybe not in an academic sense, but in an understanding people way. I feel trump isn't really that tho; his con is being an arrogant bully and the inheritance he started with makes that work enough somehow.
I know con artists in real life. They are not educated. They just speak fast and make up ideas that laymen wont call them out on. When they unknowing try that on someone who has a background in the specific field, they fall apart or get angry. A lot of conartists don't even know they're doing it because they've been doing it for so long, they've conned themselves.
He knows how to con people. All his actual business ventures fail, by design probably