Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne!: This will be interesting to watch

Sunday, May 3, 2020

This will be interesting to watch

Families warming up the sue wagon, and aiming it at universities nationwide....

A) It's Bloomberg, so beef up your malware scanners and BS detectors before clicking on it.

I took the hit, and read it. The gist is there is a wave of heavy-duty lawsuits being arranged, aimed at universities and demanding refunds. They closed campuses and most reverted to on-line courses. The difference in cost between an on-line degree and an on-campus degree can be on the order of 500% in many cases.

B) I think the universities are going to lose, and lose hard, but that's my uncultured position.

An analogy... Lets say you go to a car dealership, and there the salesman spends hours telling you the features on the 2020 Whiffenpoof 6100 special. It's amazing! It's fantastic! Just OWNING that car will tell the world you are a serious player in industry!

You buy the car, handing over a bucket full of cash. You take that car home, and it's truly wonderful. People at parties are awed by your car buying prowess, and you look forward to many job offers from fellow Whiffenpoof owners.

Then, the car dealer comes to your home in the dead of night and takes back your Whiffenpoof, replacing it with a 2017 Derpaderp compact car, which has a user rating of -23 and all employers know that car won't reliably get an employee to work every day.

Then, when you call the car dealer.... they tell you "Tough, you gotta car, so shut up. We are keeping your Whiffenpoof money, so %$#@ off."

Yeah, It's like that.

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Robert Heinlein

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!
So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary.
Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)"