WashU is very close geographically and much more prestigious. That’s why this is happening:
This kind of thing doesn’t happen at my university. Our students aren’t wealthy. They are from normal families. Not spoiled, not entitled. Just normal, good young people.
I’m about to start grading but I’m so overcome with gratitude towards my students that I might start inflating grades.
What a peculiar strategy for students who disapprove of their uni. You’d think they could just un-enroll themselves and go somewhere more aligned with their values?
Unless of course it isn’t about Boeing or the uni, but simply about spoiled neglected children demanding attention from authority figures in the only way they know how. “Buy me that useless piece of plastic or I’ll throw myself on the floor and scream!” must’ve worked every time for them.
There’s actually a legitimate reason to protest against boeing but they don’t care, of course. That a once-proud american manufacturing company was taken over by wall street parasites and can’t make an aircraft anymore to save its life should be a source of shame for all americans.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/insider-explains-what-has-gone-wrong-with-boeing
The radicalization of HR doesn’t hurt tech businesses like it hurts manufacturing businesses. At Google, they’re making a large profit margin and pursuing very progressive hiring policies. Because they are paying 30 percent or 40 percent more than the competition in salary, they are able to get the top 5 percent of whatever racial group they want. They can afford, in a sense, to pay the “DEI tax” and still find top people.
“what was it all for? What was the purpose?”
Does anyone still believe in the idea of ‘rational actors’?
There’s lots of evidence that many/most people aren’t rational in questions of their own self-interests, that leaders of countries aren’t rational in questions of their country’s interests… why should business executives be exempt from the trend toward irrational actions that hurt their own interests?
We do not live in an age that rewards competence but one that rewards identity and ideology (the right kinds of course) and the results are…. about what you’d expect when competence is downgraded.
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