Unlike other posters who make this thread, online takes are cool here, but bonus points for IRL stuff.
I was drinking with a coworker last night and somehow communism and the USSR came up. They went on about the Holodomer, implying it was engineered and targeted. I explained "hey you're literally repeating nazi talking points" and I dont recall the rest of the conversation, but im happy I got to defend Stalin at a work gathering.
Not the worst thing I've heard all week I don't think, but its both IRL and fresh in my brain.
Was told by millenial STEM-brained coworkers that most degrees are worthless, and that it’s eighteen year-olds’ faults for taking out expensive loans to go to college. They haven’t been on the job hunt for a decade, and I told them that most jobs won’t even look at you without a degree. People don’t have a choice.
They doubled down and said that the 4-5 years someone spends in college is wasted, that spending 4-5 years working a blue-collar job out of high school will get you six-figures vs studying History or Music.
The fucking irony of credentialed, limp-wristed office gusanos claiming that nobody should go to school for a useless degree and instead studying something “useful” like engineering. They’re not even working lucrative engineering jobs and they think MORE people should study it and crowd the job market.
From knowing several of these people, there's no logical thinking going on there, they're just patting themselves on the back for having made the "right" decision. Most comp sci people seem to think everyone should go into comp sci because that's where the big money is, and when you bring up that this would drive down labour prices, their brains short circuit because they have literally never thought of the labour market in that way.