7/3/2023 0 Comments Enlightenment now reviews![]() Getting a BA or BS degree (and, obviously, all the more so for an advanced degree) is supposed to be proof positive that a person is capable of devoting themselves to intellectual labor. Although many people purport to hate physical labor, in actuality a higher proportion of people find intellectual labor more distasteful (on a day-to-day long term basis). ![]() These were listed in the order of difficulty / distasteful. There are three completely distinct kinds of "hard work" that people undertake: physical work, intellectual work, and spiritual work. That said, there is a purpose to academic credentialism that apparently has escaped you. A heck of a lot more than 30% of Americans work. Roughly 30% of Americans get a four-year degree. Then there are the millions more of self-made careers of businessmen and entrepreneurs who generated their own career by noticing something that people would pay for and doing it. ![]() There are millions of jobs in thousands of job categories that don't require a BA or higher. If you want a career where a BA doesn't matter, go be a plumber, an electrician, a carpenter, a welder, a car mechanic, a crane operator, an airplane mechanic, a truck driver, a train conductor. What would help us a lot more is the credentialism set up by middle-class snobs – the insistence that nobody is worth hiring unless they had the time and money to spend on a B.A., whether the degree is relevant to the job or not. ![]()
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