pipedreams Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Nina Strohminger, a professor of legal studies and business ethics at the school, said in a tweet Thursday, "I asked Wharton students what they thought the average American worker makes per year and 25% of them thought it was over six figures. One of them thought it was $800k." "Really not sure what to make of this (The real number is $45k)," she added. https://twitter.com/NinaStrohminger/status/1483992827482804224?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1483992827482804224|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fnews%2Fwharton-students-guess-average-american-salary The Social Security Administration put the average U.S. annual wage last year at $53,383, and the median wage at $34,612, MarketWatch reported. https://twitter.com/NinaStrohminger/status/1484155206191689735?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1484155206191689735|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fnews%2Fwharton-students-guess-average-american-salary 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Work like a Captain. Party like a pirate. Plunder whatever booty you come across. Die. 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Biff Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 How many of them can change the oil in their car? That would make a nice poll, I would bet. Over educated sorts seem to be idiots when it comes to normal life and everyday knowledge. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 They have had their mushy brains washed by their liberal professors. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 I'm believing that today you are better off if you don't go to school but learn by experience. Schools teach you what they want you to think, not how to think. I formed this opinion by talking with my Granddaughter who is a graduate student and listening to her repeat to me what her professors are telling her. She has gradually changed from open mindedness to being narcissistic. I still love her but don't put much stock in her opinions now. I was taught how and where to find information to make up my own mind, I wasn't taught to be a teacher/professor. Back then it was a profession like any other. An admirable one, but not the epitome of intelligence. Most Professors think that if you strive to get an advanced degree you can be like them and teach. Anything else for a vocation is beneath them/you. The scholastic social structure promotes this belief. Thinking you are better than those you teach promotes the idea that your students must have your beliefs to have any value. This is narcissistic. Narcissistic adjective Having an excessive love of oneself; egocentric; egoistic. Having an inflated idea of one's own importance. Obsessed with one's own self image and ego. The trouble with "liberalism" isn't in believing in it, it's believing that everyone must be like you to have any value to society. This is BS! The belief that if you teach you are the epitome of success. What does it mean to be the epitome of something? What is an epitome of life? - Quora It means a person or thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type. Let's say, for example, Lal Bahadur Shastriji was an epitome of simplicity. She is the epitome of gentleness. His life is an epitome of success. Intolerance and elitism are the problems with America today. Not anything else. Have you lived in, or near a group of professors and their families? If you had, you would know what Narcissism is and how corrosive it is. We used to respect ability, and initiative. Now we only pretend to respect those who agree with us. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inyo Tim Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 1 hour ago, janice6 said: Schools teach you what they want you to think, not how to think. If you are taught a lie, then you know and repeat a lie. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 I taught accounting in college for a few years, then moved on to other areas of accounting. Could have continued as a student in college until I earned a PhD. Would have been a different life from the one I lived. I was remarkably uninterested in teaching anything other than accounting. That was decades ago. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 Local Tysons chicken processing plant is and has been trying to hire for months. $15 or so to start. If a person can hang on that’s $30,000 per year. Hard, tough work - a classic “dirty job”. Suspect turnover is heavy and continuous. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 2 hours ago, railfancwb said: I taught accounting in college for a few years, then moved on to other areas of accounting. Could have continued as a student in college until I earned a PhD. Would have been a different life from the one I lived. I was remarkably uninterested in teaching anything other than accounting. That was decades ago. My professors in college engineering courses believed that to really succeed they said that you would have to teach not go into industry. I guess tenure and the control over a large number of students got you to believe that control was yours alone and control was the ultimate measure of success. I got into Engineering for my own satisfaction. I left "footsteps in the sand" so that when I was gone, someone would know I had been here. To me success is being able to point to an achievement no matter how small, that others could benefit from. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuteTheMall Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 Maybe the average Wharton graduate will make 6 figures per year. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostinTexas Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 So,,,,kids that never held a job or hit a lick have all the answers? Mmmmm K. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 6 minutes ago, LostinTexas said: So,,,,kids that never held a job or hit a lick have all the answers? Mmmmm K. Evidently! I talked with my Granddaughter, and she is a PhD candidate. She assured me that she knows everything. I laughed at her and told her mother to get back to me when the Granddaughter graduates and starts looking for a job. PhDs in my research lab were considered overhead and were the first to go when money was tight. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 I remember a discussion with the parents of one of my friends when I was in my early 20's. Someone brought up the subject of 2 brothers we went to high school with who were both studying to become teachers. While they were still learning, I was earning and had bought my 3rd house. The friends' parents pointed out that not only would they never catch up to those of us who were already earning, but that we had walking around sense which the 2 brothers would never acquire. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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