There are people who, afraid of this truth, grant half of it, like debtors who offer half to their creditors, and ask to be let off the rest. —Dictionnaire philosophique
There
are two main aspects of the academic credentialing
(i.e., mistakenly referred to as "education") scam: The governmental
policy that enables the
scam itself, and the actual people who administer the scam. Scam refers
to the deliberate inefficiency of schools graduating more students than
there are (entry-level) jobs in that field. This situation is enabled by
the
government policy of subsidizing tuition for the purpose of encouraging education; this creates the worst of both worlds, it both interferes with market demand while not regulating it
sufficiently.
This
governmental policy is the cause. The effect of that cause are the
schools themselves, both the administrations and their fellow-traveling
academics taking
advantage of the unlimited and almost unregulated government money
available.
The
immoral behavior of both the
school administrations and the disingenuous
stay-away-from-my-fat-paycheck
professional/professorial sophisters are a necessary result of the moral
hazard governmental education policy created. An ignorant population of
mostly young students who have limited career options, spending government (i.e., other people's) money,
not having to repay it for years (once they have their imaginary
castle-in-the-sky high-earning dream job in the future), creates too
tempting of a payday
for schools to forgo collection. We as a country pay for scamming, and
scamming is exactly what we get, and in abundance.
This
policy of moral hazard creates the scam because the policy creates the
incentive. Otherwise, the students would not be so gullible; as the
quondam scamblog mentioned, if one must spend their own money—their
social value, really—the
marketing of law school via job placement stats suddenly would become
closely examined by even the special snowflakes. Maybe I should contact some actual recent grads
before I risk my youth on this? Yeah, maybe an actual unbiased living person in the real world might give me useful advice.
As to a response to this situation, the policy (cause) and the scam (effect) both ought to be exposed. If only the
cause is addressed, it is an abstract, unexciting policy issue. The effect—the
ScamDeans earning more than twice the income than the President of
the United States, the Professor Dumbledums writing rambling make-work articles for each other, cry out for exposure, as public
opinion does not well countenance overpaid, underworked professors who provide
no value back to society.
If
only the effect were
addressed, however, we would forever be trimming the leaves instead of
reforming
the underlying policy instead. We must continue to expose the visible
put-an-ugly-yellow-toothed-face-to-the-devil ScamLords, while also
addressing the situation that allowed them to prosper. Only then may we
rip-out the scam by the dirty roots, and put an end to the sociopathic
robbing of the taxpayer and student under the pretense of "law" or "art"
education.
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Read my book-length satire/exposé of law school, Smarter Than Socrates: The End of the Law School Era.
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Read my book-length satire/exposé of law school, Smarter Than Socrates: The End of the Law School Era.
"ScamDeans earning more than twice the income than the President of the United States"
ReplyDeleteYou used the plural here when referring to Deans. Are you referring to someone other than O'Brien who earns more than twice Obama's $400,000 salary?
The scam is one part of the equation. The other part is... people. Even if the gov't didn't provide loans, I'm pretty sure most of OPs I've tried to convince not to go to LS would go anyway because they are special. Kids will beg and borrow from family members, save money for years, blow through inheritances, etc. to follow this dream of "becoming a member of the legal profession." Every special snowflake is determined to beat the odds. "At least I'll have an education... whereas, if I buy a car, I won't have it in ten years."
ReplyDeleteMr. Bell:
ReplyDeleteYour writing just keeps getting stronger. Excellent analysis. Nothing changes until we persuade Congress to turn off the easy money spigot. This will take work (as the entrenched forces will fight this tooth and nail) but you are right---it must be done.
Adam B:
ReplyDeletePlease delete the poem from a few posts ago.
You know which one it is.
You and a couple of others are the only decent people that write for this blog IMHO, and I have not commented as per my word and will not unless I see cowardly anon postings that are very upsetting to me.
So please do me that favor and moderate your commentary.
I don't see how letting the anon troll shit all over me with wildly inappropriate comments of a sexual nature can help your cause of highlighting areas that need reform within the legal field or having to do with legal education.
Sincerely,
John Koch
Long Island
Carbon Copy:
Brian Leiter
Go away. Problem solved.
DeleteNote how the attacks only start when you post.
And the poems are funny too.
That is because he posts as himself then attacks himself as anonomous. Self-loathing and need for attention. Hopefully his family will get him some help before its too late.
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ReplyDeleteYou are a piece of miserable shit anon coward.
If you shared your name and identity, and I subsequently posted an anon poem about your nose up someone's ass you would not think it was so funny I bet.
Anyway there is an academic brat around here too, which is very disheartening.
This blog is a product of too many cranks and cooks spoiling the soup and all in the name of Campos. And is all BATHOS
Well then, Campos can point to the horrible comments that were left unmoderated on OLSS as his legacy.
Campos can point to the anon comments that were left to stand about DJM sucking a Law School Dean's cock etc. and add it to his resume I guess.
At this late stage of the game, all writers have to be above board and identify themselves, or else the scamblog efforts will just be a tabloid and nonpolitical and free effort in a state of absolute chaos and hardly to be taken seriously, and that includes all affiliated with the menagerie of OLSS.
Again, I very much denounce the disrespect of DJM that was shown by some anon commenters on OLSS, which was left to stand and went unmoderated.
I also do not stand by and watch Leiter get shit all over by a pack of anon and very cowardly wolves.
The Joseph Cotchett Law Firm looks at the scamblogs.
ReplyDeleteNuff said
I meant that tdennis was the academic brat.
ReplyDeleteare you saying that you are her?
Painter, I am now going to report your online behavior to the police in your area. You are now getting very stalkerish.
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