Give me a stack of resumes for any particular job, and the resumes I would discard first would be from Ivy League graduates. Those people are utterly useless.
I think that is a key part of what is missed here. An Ivy league degree is no longer a mark of someone who can learn eventually to run the whole place, but rather a ticket to short-circuit learning and experience and run the whole place right now - experience not actually wanted because it taints the purity of thought of a well-trained socialist cadre - well aparatchik, but there is no class distinction among pigs.
“...Give me a stack of resumes for any particular job, and the resumes I would discard first would be from Ivy League graduates. Those people are utterly useless....”
Yep, right on. Ivy League schools, especially Harvard, have become so politically correct that they’ve denigrated themselves to a level below local community colleges. When I was a field manager in the oil field, they would send these freshly minted little twerps out to me to get “experience”. They wouldn’t go into the field because it was “...so hot out there”. Instead, they’d want to sit in the office trailer all day and play on the internet. They were usually graduates of the “better schools” and come from well-off wealthy families. I let dozens of em go. The only ones that really wanted to work and learn seemed to come from large poor rural families, especially family farm backgrounds and those of Asian decent. They had a good work ethic and sincerely wanted to learn the business. They’d do whatever I asked, or showed them, to do. They worked hard and soaked up data and experience like a dry sponge. Those ones I kept and promoted quickly....the rest were trash. Within 4 years, I had a small team of good ones that performed great. Our group was often commended for our performance.
An Ivy League diploma means NOTHING today. Good work ethic, a willingness to learn and desire to succeed far outweighs it.