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Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
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this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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They're saying degrees are useless. Not learning. They're two different things.
Except they are categorically not useless? I'd still be stuck in fuckstick nowhere if they were. So would many others. Thats anecdotal and doesn't count, though.
If someone is able to pass enough classes to get a degree without learning anything thats a them problem.
Now, if one wants to call degrees a poor value proposition?
Also wrong. Just because the US hasn't had a coherent fiscal policy since before Reagan and has allowed tuition to skyrocket while milking the students for all they're worth still doesn't make the degree useless.
Learning is not useless. If someone doesn't learn anything in 4 years and accepts that degree? They're at fault.
If the argument is that degrees are useless because they don't guarantee employment you can find my response at the top of this comment chain.
WHY DO I HAVE TO CONVINCE PEOPLE HIGHER LEARNING IS AN ADMIRABLE PURSUIT REGARDLESS OF THE JOB PROSPECTS