For all intents and purposes, the Father of Sociology is Karl Marx.
A confession useful in changing the way leeches can vacation for a lifetime then retire without a monetary concern for the rest of their lives which are of value only to themselves.
Decimate all government.
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And your soft, satin pillow was carried, year after year on the backs of people, working productive jobs in the private sector you so despise, who don't enjoy the indulgent luxury of ahem....”self-cultivation”.
The Left is all about pathological narcissism. College professors have the art perfected.
At least he’s honest about all of it. More than I can say about some of the professors that live in my ‘hood. They think they’re entitled.
People don’t change unless they have to.
This will continue until the end, at which time they will be faced with many new challenges.
This man’s position, and thousands like him across the country, could be replaced by a single DVD.
I feel your pain, but the good professor is, after retirement, engaging in a tongue-in-cheek illustration of basic Econometric Theory, for which the “Chicago School” is famous. Basically, it espouses that one should carefully look at the historic economic details before forming theories about the social group you are evaluating. As opposed to believing what a group says about itself, e.g. “It’s to promote healthy children and mothers.”
As you demonstrate, it’s a powerful way to change attitudes. The truth often is.
We may not need more sociology professors but we can always use more critical thinking... I’ve always wondered how politicians seem to enter a pauper and leave “public service” a prince.
While Professor DAVID RUBINSTEIN does a social good by reporting this grand theft of public wealth from the citizens, what is he himself doing, accepting the ill-gotten wealth that is ill-gotten because it enslaves others to continuing taking it, or is he honorably quitting the system, and refusing all this blood money?
If he is not then what is this confession but mocking braggadocio, the laughing scorn of a bold thief?
Here ya go...
Send less money to government; much less. We need torches and pitchforks in the streets. We need anger and action. we need our country back.
And yes we do need a handful of sociology professors. But just a handful.
And they should make no more than the building maintenance people.
A number of my old college profs admitted they had it very nice. But they taught at a smaller state college, UW-La Crosse (Wis) that meant most of them taught their classes personally without having grad student substitutes do much teaching. And they didn’t make as much money as profs who taught at private or bigger colleges. Nevertheless, they said they had it good. Not nearly as good as Rubenstein, who taught at one the nation’s elite colleges, but pretty good.
Good work if you can get it.