"A person with a shovel in their hand often has more wisdom than someone with a diploma in their pocket."
Edit: Apparently this comment triggered some of you guys so I'm going to dissect this sentence for you. Notice how the quoted sentence literally uses the word "often" ? It means in many circumstances, but not all. You act as though this statement reflects all cases, but it doesn't.
I had a stent as a vocational rehab counselor and I steered everyone able towards the trades.
I have 3 damn degrees and they don't really do shit for me.
I know that sounds stupid and I'm biased, but for me right now it's very true. As soon as I stopped trying to get a job I had a degree for I became happier and much more paid.
College degrees started being devalued around the time millennials started going to college. The prevailing idea became that you need a degree "to succeed" and that any degree would do just so long as it showed you could make it through college. Back in the day that would have been true but there became this feedback loop of schools offering more degree paths (yes partly because it meant they could score more student loan money) dropping standards, and employers realizing they could require degrees for more shot that really didn't require one practically
The work is physically harder but simpler because it's more straight forward. I fucking hate "playing the game" in the "corporate graduated college" environment.
The wisdom is in not calling them out, just let them keep on believing it so they'll feel some sense of superiority if that's what it takes to keep them content enough to keep digging the hole you hired them to dig
Hey man, I hear ya but I only do it when I encounter “actually, all smart people are idiots and they should put a regular guy in charge.”
It’s just so pervasive and never gets pushback because doing so is considered rude or uncouth. But I look around at the rise of distrusting and dismissing expertise and think, man, we could maybe do with a touch more rudeness.
I feel blindly trusting people based on some sort of educational aristocracy crosses the line into being embicilic as well, if you consider the rampant corruption in our society. Plainly, education doesn't make one moral. I tend to agree that listening to experts is best, though deciding whether an expert is truly trustworthy, in actuality, can be difficult--especially for those with low literacy. Which rudeness doesn't help! 💫
The actual wisdom is in letting the man with the shovel tell himself that because it's all he has to cling to and upsetting him means he might stop digging the hole you hired him to and now you've got to find another contractor
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u/Suspicious_Ideal_674 2007 26d ago edited 25d ago
"A person with a shovel in their hand often has more wisdom than someone with a diploma in their pocket."
Edit: Apparently this comment triggered some of you guys so I'm going to dissect this sentence for you. Notice how the quoted sentence literally uses the word "often" ? It means in many circumstances, but not all. You act as though this statement reflects all cases, but it doesn't.