Haha your references are beyond me on this one pal, no idea what you mean by chief keef or father figures.
If thats what they're saying they're in error. They should give poor families the opportunity for an equal education. What the kid does with it is up to them. If they end up in the slacker class, so be it. Nobody made him score low on tests or not give a fuck, that was up to him.
It is the companies that decide, but in Germany the difference between the government, the unions, and the corporations is really blurred. Fun fact: Under the philosophy ofMitbestimmung,in Germany, the union associated with any public corporation with more than 500 employees gets to seat 50% of that company's board of directors. The shareholders have to make do with the other 50%, and there's a government representative on each board that breaks ties. In Germany they really go for "your company is part of your family" thing that many other countries do. This is actually very funny because my dad runs the US branch of a German company and they have to beat the fact that this does not apply here into the heads of any management type they bring over. In Germany it's not uncommon for your boss to ask you to run personal errands for him, because he's the "father" of the "family" and can do this. We had an incident once where one of the German consultants tried to get the engineers to run errands for him, I wasn't there but from what I hear that went to shit really quickly.
Was skimming a book by Mises recently and this is one of the things he pointed out about why everyone hates meritocracy and capitalism. It removes the excuses people have for failing. In aristocracies or caste systems etc, you are born to your station. Its not your fault. You can rise within it, but its not really your fault if you can't be a doctor or ceo or whatever. And people are always able to claim some sort of pride and dignity in their position. It lets people keep their delusions of being special and retain their pride and self worth.
It's probably a cultural thing, as in, if you're not "book smart" (i.e. college educated) then you're an idiot. The truth is, there's a huge lack in the trade skills. If you do go down that route you're practically guaranteed a job, and if you do well and know your shit, you can earn a good paycheck and work as much as you want. In contrast, due to the huge glut of college educated people there is high unemployment amongst them and those who do have a job need to be *very* lucky to get something decent in their field. Go to any caf? or shop and chances are you'll be served by someone with a college degree.
There's basically two tiers of college degrees, there's the ones that require four semester of calculus and the ones that don't. The ones that do basically all come with a job on graduation, the ones that don't are becoming more and more worthless. Its pretty uncanny how this basically always holds, even degrees that one would think aren't real world applicable like Physics are still very valuable, while even STEM degrees are becoming garbage if they don't require math. A Biology or Chemistry degree isn't worth much anymore.
Fucking lol, Southwestern making the news. It's a tiny liberal arts school (1500 students) north of Austin. You've never heard of it. You think you have because the name is so goddamn generic, but you've never heard of it.
A chemistry degree is absolutely worthwhile. A biology degree is a little more mixed and really depends on how chemistry heavy the program/specialization is. A friend of mine double majored in chemistry/physics and then got a PhD in neurobiology, her program was tough and although the department was mostly women none of the ones I met were the SJW types.
Biology maybe. Chem degrees are still very good for well paid employment after graduation.
