193
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
193 points (98.0% liked)
Asklemmy
44002 readers
1100 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
Because a lot of people are. Especially people who end up in charge of things.
I mean, it's not like there hasn't been an entire cottage industry for churning out real, new research papers for rich fucks who don't actually know how to write a research paper for over twenty years. I had a friend who survived grad school in the early 2000's being paid to write research papers for idiot rich kids at more prestigious schools. They get to slap their name on original research and say "not plaigiarism, I'm a smart kid, I promise!" Add in a little Nepotism and you've got the fixings for some idiot in charge of something they shouldn't be.
You get the sense a lot of people are imposters because literally a lot of them actually are and their class of people has been growing and been being given the controls to society and they literally don't know what the fuck they are doing but they are in charge.
Yup. I agree 100%. For everyone person getting a hard degree (define that how you will) to actually learn skills, there's someone who has family connections who just needs the degree to check a box, or someone who has been privileged enough that they think they can "fake it till they make it" (and they end up being able to).
My job would be so much easier if everyone I work with had the skills their degrees would lead you to believe they have.
I once met a guy who was like 28, but he had a super impressive sounding resume with like 6 different jobs. I don't remember where, but think prestigious universities, big tech companies, federal agencies, etc. Everyone acted like he was a genius, but if you think about it, that's like 1 year per job. If he was that good, one of those places would have tried to keep him around longer. Depending on the field, 1 year isn't really enough time to have much impact, anyway. He basically just chained together buzzwords.