A Matter of Degree
6th May 2011
“Without a college degree, hard-pressed for jobs,” is the headline on an NPR story, right now topping the “most popular list” on the NPR site. Funny how it doesn’t mention Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Apple’s Steve Jobs, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Enterprise Rent-a-Car’s Jack Taylor, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, Dell computer’s Michael Dell, movie and music producer David Geffen, and Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson. None of them are college graduates, and they’re all doing okay.
I suspect that ‘working for somebody else’ is a foundational concept among those of the Crust, of which NPR employees would appear to be archetypes.
May 6th, 2011 at 12:43
In NPR’s world, if you didn’t graduate from a liberal arts college, you probably chew snuff and belong to the Klan. Or, worse yet, you voted for Sarah Palin.