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@ Jon- being a home national in country without a degree in your subject will mean it is incredibly difficult to get a job in those fields. Further from what I have seen the content of a lot of degrees have little relevance to what is actually required to be competent at a job in that field.
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Some good advice there Clayton. One of the issues we face in the UK is that, even though student debt can get really high, it doesn't feel expensive since you only start paying the debt back after reaching a particular earning threshold. Further with the loans you get you can live quite comfortably for the years at University. Consequently many
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@ Clayton- I entirely agree that it has become a state sponsered guild system. My question was merely pragmatic: given the present institutional structures which require a degree for employment in that field beyond the ones I mentioned? Under a sane system practically all training for a vocation would be an old apprentice system. Hook up to one master
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Apart from teaching, engineering and medical industries which jobs actually require a degree? In the UK accountancy and law have seperate exams to become professionally qualified. EDIT: to give more context I'm the equivalent of a high school teacher and occasionally advise students on their career path. Thinking back over my past, if I know what
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@ Jon, out of interest have you read Hulsmann's the Structure of Production Reconsidered?
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This paper by Hulsmann may be of interest. http://www.guidohulsmann.com/pdf/Time_Preference_Investment_Expenditure.pdf
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My guess is that the forum is being put on hold until the new overarching tech guy figures out what he wants to do with it.
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[quote user="vive la insurrection"] That said there does seem to be a type of all inclusive "pantheistic" drive in a lefties mentality that would blot out all distinctions - so that may have something to do with it. [/quote] That "pantheistic" drive was what I was getting at with the universals over particulars statement
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The best, but by no means perfect, distinction I've heard between left and right is from Paul Gottfried who argues that the essence of the left is egalitarianism and the essence of the right is inegalitarianism. For the left then the fundemental principle is always does this bring us closer to equality. So when it comes to science they cannot admit
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I wouldn't be suprised if these were random kids they're going after just like they did with Osama Bin Laden- killed a bloke in a beard,