The Social Justice Sales Pitch

The advertisement that is reproduced in the photograph here can be seen at many of the CTA train stops going into and out of the city. It caught my eye and so I took a quick shot of it and decided to write about it because it struck me as another scam on the part of the leftist educational institutions we suffer from today.

Education has become more and more expensive over the years; much more than it was back in the bad old days when I was a mere student in school. Even back then you had to spend a few dollars to take classes, but nothing like it is today. The government’s own economic involvement in higher education has had the effect of driving costs up by pumping money into the system in the form of student loans and grants to universities. Schools have taken this opportunity of federal funds being thrown their way to substantially raise tuition and other costs and pass those costs on to gullible students. The debt is held by the students of course and they have to pay back the government since during the Obama administration the feds took over the student loan business. Good for the schools and the government, but not as good for the students who are frequently saddled with debt that they can’t pay back.

It’s not that I am against higher education overall, but I think in this day and age you should be very careful how you spend the hard earned money that schools demand for their educational products. I can’t see this as anything other than a way to fleece students by providing them with yet another high priced worthless degree. And it is a fact that many students today lack the judgment and temperament to distinguish between those degrees that are actually worth something and those that are a massive waste of money.

Because really, what are you going to do with a Social Justice Warrior degree? If you want to be valuable in the job market today, you need to have a skill set that is in demand. The obvious ones are in STEM fields, but even if that’s not to your liking, there are other jobs for those who can provide a valuable service in areas such as the trades, where people are also in high demand. Businesses need talented and trained individuals to do a variety of different kinds of jobs. And in the age of the internet, it’s not really that difficult to do a bit of research to find out what skills are in demand. But I think it is safe to say that meddling SJWs are probably not the next big growth industry. Quite the contrary.

For SJWs don’t really produce anything and in fact are destructive of business and commerce wherever they go. Vox has made the point that D.C. and Marvel Comics are being destroyed by Social Justice Warriors as their revenues plummet. No normal person wants to see the kind of politically correct heroes that they are now pushing on the public. The traditional ones have been replaced with new ones that normal people find repulsive. And the decline of old standards like Star Wars has been covered elsewhere. Other industries have been seriously harmed by the left when they have come to dominate in those areas; education, legacy media and Hollywood for example.

Leftists don’t really like business or success or real economic progress and advancement. They are permanently unhappy people and find it seriously painful to observe other people being happy and prosperous. And so they have to find ways to destroy those things while trying to convince others that they are engaged in some sort of higher moral purpose. That’s an excuse of course, but they can’t just come out and admit that they hate you because you are normal and successful. They have to hide behind some sort of byzantine rationalization for why they always have to screw things up for you and me.

And having a high-priced degree saying that you know how to be a professional screw-up seems to me the ultimate in rationalizations.