Why hire military over your competition?

[livin'thesim]

If you graduated from Yale and are flying airplanes, then something went terribly wrong.

 

[pilotyip]

If you graduated from Yale and are flying airplanes, then something went terribly wrong.

I can think of a couple Yale drops out who went into flying, worked out OK for them. George Bush the first, became a Navy pilot, things worked out ok for that college drop out. The other was Robert Lovett who dropped out to become a Navy pilot also, things worked out pretty good for him also. First, Assistant Secretary of War for Air in WWII, Secretary of Defense under Truman, co-author of the Marshall Plan in 1947. Shows a college degree has nothing to do with flying an airplane.

 

[livin'thesim]

Dropouts, fine.

The college/pilot career connection is tenuous at best. And yes, I have a degree, with a mostly technical/scientific character.

I will say that some of the mathematics and physics were of some use when pondering a few principles of flight, but people don't crash airplanes because they don't understand physics, they crash airplanes because they are inattentive or, occasionally, poorly skilled.


I remember when the housing bubble was bursting, and people were many tens of thousands of dollars underwater, while I was renting for less than some were paying in property tax alone.

They still tried to tell me that a house was a great "investment", and it was a great investment **at any price**.

I said, um, nooo, it is a great investment at the **right** price.

So I waited a few years and bought at near the bottom of the market.


Some of those people are still slightly underwater, even though prices have recovered.

What was interesting was their stubborn insistence on rationalizing any reason whatsoever to prove to themselves and others that "housing is a great investment". Mostly, it was to continue to convince themselves.

Now, I feel BAD that many people got screwed over due to the housing bubble, but that is no reason to take to rationalizations and outright lies because one cannot face the truth that they overpaid for an asset.

I recently read an article about a girl who has 100K+ in college debt for a "degree" in photography. And now, she works for basically minimum wage.

Sure, the baby boomers have all the empty platitudes about how college "enriches" your mind, etc., but it's mostly a load of stupid, because college has morphed into something very different. Instead of institutes of higher learning, college campuses are money-machines for the educational elite.

"Big Education" is as corrupt as "Big Pharma" or "Big Oil".

They are in business to serve themselves, at the expense of the little guy.

 

[waveflyer]

Yeah- well baby boomers got a much different deal on education than did the next generations they supported.

Leeches.

Greatest generation set them up with some of the best and cheapest education anywhere then they proceeded to pull up the ladder