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> I preceded to tell him that it doesn’t matter if you have a college degree anymore to do today’s jobs and that he was basically bragging about his family’s socioeconomic status, not his son’s actual achievements. I tried to elaborate about the inequalities of higher education and why it’s an outdated metric of future success. I explained why employers are absolutely wrong for thinking his son is better than someone without a degree or a degree from a public university.

Massive eye roll. I'm sure everyone clapped after that, and they gave them a free coffee, and hung their portrait on the wall.

Also, it's "proceeded".




> Also, it's "proceeded"

He’d know that if he had a college degree.


The author has a journalism degree, which makes the entire thing so much more ironic.


I don't believe the author is railing against getting a degree, so much as railing against these "elite college" graduates being that much better than any other graduate.




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