It's just cognitive dissonance. Typically these people are from upper middle class families and extremely privileged, as you can see from the one... they got a PhD from Georgetown. Just that alone (nevermind undergraduate) will run you 80-90k. These people are the so called "1%". So they want to compete in the oppression Olympics because that's en vogue, well their great grandmother's neighbor was from Guatemala or whatever, so shut up white man, you don't understand how hard it is for oppressed people like them. It's really just nonsense.
It's like a modern day version of rich white men telling poor starving workers to shut up, because they don't understand how hard it is to be one of Ayn Rand's great creators or whatever (not that these people create anything).
If I were a socialist, I'm pretty sure these are people I would consider as the class enemy.
dropping a cool quarter mil on a degree that is at best ornamental and quite possibly outright career death looks like an extremely ostentatious indulgence.
of course, for all i know, there are scholarships for these things and you and i are paying for it...
Great comment. My grandfather immigrated to the U.S. from Russia and was a coal miner in Pennsylvania. He died of Black Lung Disease. He used to say that he had to work so hard that he never had the luxury to experience depression.
My grandparents arrived in the early 20s in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution. Their entire area near Indiana PA outside Pittsburgh was populated by Eastern European immigrants who worked in the mines. Ukrainians, Russians, and Polish, primarily. Black Lung was the illness that took most of them including my grandfather. They were deeply patriotic as all my uncles served, including two who were wounded in World War II. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for that area of Pennsylvania.
My great-great-grandfather arrived from Ireland just before the potato famine really got rolling. His eldest son (my great-grandpa) ran away at age 12 and ended up a yankee soldier, injured but survived. He ended up in Michigan, became a dirt-poor farmer. Then my grandfather wasn't a soldier, but had two sons who served during WWII. My uncle was in the Pacific Theatre, and my dad was in the European. Both were injured but survived. My brother fought in Viet Nam, and was physically injured, but also went a bit crazy.
Seems like every generation has at least one big war, but not sure how my dad's dad didn't end up fighting. ЁЯд╖тАНтЩАя╕П
It's just cognitive dissonance. Typically these people are from upper middle class families and extremely privileged, as you can see from the one... they got a PhD from Georgetown. Just that alone (nevermind undergraduate) will run you 80-90k. These people are the so called "1%". So they want to compete in the oppression Olympics because that's en vogue, well their great grandmother's neighbor was from Guatemala or whatever, so shut up white man, you don't understand how hard it is for oppressed people like them. It's really just nonsense.
It's like a modern day version of rich white men telling poor starving workers to shut up, because they don't understand how hard it is to be one of Ayn Rand's great creators or whatever (not that these people create anything).
If I were a socialist, I'm pretty sure these are people I would consider as the class enemy.
just FYI, i think you may be low on costs.
80-90k is per year.
https://finaid.georgetown.edu/graduate/aid-by-program/2022-23-graduate-program-cost-of-attendance/
you're likely to do 3 years as a minimum on PhD.
just makes your point more valid though.
dropping a cool quarter mil on a degree that is at best ornamental and quite possibly outright career death looks like an extremely ostentatious indulgence.
of course, for all i know, there are scholarships for these things and you and i are paying for it...
Have you seen this?
https://gettr.com/post/p1sw9cw8f22?fbclid=IwAR2G0g43irWvgGL4t4UHVdcFVjwXrhkMLwYCM06a4wvm53_MufU4L-19jag
Haha, yep you're right. Mine was the costs per year. Really amazing.
Great comment. My grandfather immigrated to the U.S. from Russia and was a coal miner in Pennsylvania. He died of Black Lung Disease. He used to say that he had to work so hard that he never had the luxury to experience depression.
That's where my Irish ancestors landed too. Pennsylvania coal mines. That was probably earlier than yours, though.
My grandparents arrived in the early 20s in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution. Their entire area near Indiana PA outside Pittsburgh was populated by Eastern European immigrants who worked in the mines. Ukrainians, Russians, and Polish, primarily. Black Lung was the illness that took most of them including my grandfather. They were deeply patriotic as all my uncles served, including two who were wounded in World War II. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for that area of Pennsylvania.
My great-great-grandfather arrived from Ireland just before the potato famine really got rolling. His eldest son (my great-grandpa) ran away at age 12 and ended up a yankee soldier, injured but survived. He ended up in Michigan, became a dirt-poor farmer. Then my grandfather wasn't a soldier, but had two sons who served during WWII. My uncle was in the Pacific Theatre, and my dad was in the European. Both were injured but survived. My brother fought in Viet Nam, and was physically injured, but also went a bit crazy.
Seems like every generation has at least one big war, but not sure how my dad's dad didn't end up fighting. ЁЯд╖тАНтЩАя╕П
edit: typos
If you're talking about the Alanna character, she hasn't got a PhD yet. Her bio says "applying".
Also, what's with that green turkey Muppet thing she's holding in her Twitter picture?
Lol I didn't even notice, just glanced. I'm not sure why someone would put that in a bio. Like I'm a aspiring rocket scientist and lottery winner.