I agree with you, but I also see a bit of a chicken and egg issue.
At the current moment it seems to me that the “high prestige employers” often work with the universities and the government to control speech.
I don’t think it helps high prestige employers get better employees, but it may help them get a more easily controlled populace that will cede control to government, academic, and industry “experts” rather than daring to question things. If anything many of us fear that if we dare think independently (and openly so) and upset the “wrong” person/people we might become a pariah socially, financially, and perhaps in the worst case scenario lose freedoms due to being labeled an enemy of society as a whole...and none of that is conducive to creative thinking and genuinely open inquiry.
Perhaps the power to use the government (for example: through accreditation, licensing rules, and government grants - or even private tax sheltered ones) to crush competing institutions, businesses, etc. has more appeal to high prestige employers than the ability to find employees who think creatively and outside of any collective box?
Maybe if we could find a way to remove many of the government controlled barriers to creating new institutions, new businesses, new products, etc. we might also need to rethink the value of having a limited number of high prestige employers to compete for the favor of?
The ability of corporations and not-for-profits to obtain government powers to serve competitive advantage is a short-sighted strategy. How can they maintain productivity and creativity without ambitious, independent and well-educated employees? The quality of contemporary college graduates is laughable. Their level of under-education is incredible. Biochemists do not know the concept of -delta G, BS grads do not know 40 x 10^4 is 4 x 10^5. I am supposed to mentor them to create stem cell- derived human brain organoids to study neurocognitive disorders or perform single cell RNAseq analyses? We are kidding ourselves here as to the consequences of our inaction. Not to mention the lack of work ethic and the disdain for constructive criticism. There is no drive for development or desire to make significant contributions. Time spent attempting to fight uphill battles or mend morbid institutions with Band-Aids is a monumental waste of time and testimony to our lack of character strength. We should be thinking about means to outmaneuver the woke and pathologized ideologues. Instead we play their game of weaponized empathy. They certainly are not going to show us any.
I agree with you, but I also see a bit of a chicken and egg issue.
At the current moment it seems to me that the “high prestige employers” often work with the universities and the government to control speech.
I don’t think it helps high prestige employers get better employees, but it may help them get a more easily controlled populace that will cede control to government, academic, and industry “experts” rather than daring to question things. If anything many of us fear that if we dare think independently (and openly so) and upset the “wrong” person/people we might become a pariah socially, financially, and perhaps in the worst case scenario lose freedoms due to being labeled an enemy of society as a whole...and none of that is conducive to creative thinking and genuinely open inquiry.
Perhaps the power to use the government (for example: through accreditation, licensing rules, and government grants - or even private tax sheltered ones) to crush competing institutions, businesses, etc. has more appeal to high prestige employers than the ability to find employees who think creatively and outside of any collective box?
Maybe if we could find a way to remove many of the government controlled barriers to creating new institutions, new businesses, new products, etc. we might also need to rethink the value of having a limited number of high prestige employers to compete for the favor of?
The ability of corporations and not-for-profits to obtain government powers to serve competitive advantage is a short-sighted strategy. How can they maintain productivity and creativity without ambitious, independent and well-educated employees? The quality of contemporary college graduates is laughable. Their level of under-education is incredible. Biochemists do not know the concept of -delta G, BS grads do not know 40 x 10^4 is 4 x 10^5. I am supposed to mentor them to create stem cell- derived human brain organoids to study neurocognitive disorders or perform single cell RNAseq analyses? We are kidding ourselves here as to the consequences of our inaction. Not to mention the lack of work ethic and the disdain for constructive criticism. There is no drive for development or desire to make significant contributions. Time spent attempting to fight uphill battles or mend morbid institutions with Band-Aids is a monumental waste of time and testimony to our lack of character strength. We should be thinking about means to outmaneuver the woke and pathologized ideologues. Instead we play their game of weaponized empathy. They certainly are not going to show us any.