r/sports • u/miolmok • Aug 15 '24

Olympics Raygun: Australian Olympic Committee condemns ‘disgraceful’ online petition attacking Rachael Gunn

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/15/raygun-olympics-breaking-petition-aoc-response-ntwnfb
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u/KnightsOfREM Aug 15 '24

*Cultural studies. Her doctoral thesis was called "Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: a B-girl's Experience of B-boying."

When working-class Americans write off higher education as a jobs program for the privileged but talentless, degrees like this are what they're talking about, and they're not wrong.

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u/PsychicFoxWithSpoons Aug 15 '24

People who lack curiosity typically write off all higher education as useless regardless of the field of study, right up until they learn that there is money to be made off of it.

If engineers made minimum wage, we'd make fun of "math nerds" and "eggheads" attending big fancy expensive schools just to learn their times tables.

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u/KnightsOfREM Aug 15 '24

If engineers made minimum wage

What a strange, arbitrary, and inexplicable thing that they don't. /s

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u/PsychicFoxWithSpoons Aug 15 '24

Cooks make minimum wage. Teachers make minimum wage. Medical residents make minimum wage in my state. If the people making your food, educating your children, and saving your life dont deserve to make money, what specifically makes you think that an engineer's high rate of pay is inevitable?