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.
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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.
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Exactly. They couldn’t find Israel on a map to save their lives. It’s a way to feel important. They would get over it pretty fast if they had to have jobs, pay bills, and take care of relatives.
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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
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What’s absolutely maddening is that these companies go to enormous lengths to ingratiate themselves with the leftist activist crowd – and they still fail. The brats still boycott them and pout at them. So what was it all for? What was the purpose?
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“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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