Posted on 07/27/2025 9:11:34 AM PDT by libh8er
MBA stands for:
Money Burnt Away
Mediocre Business Acumen
Mediocre but arrogant
Might Be Anticlimactic
Marriage Breakdown Accelerator
Mostly bs advice
My buried aspirations
“A Japanese company and a North American company decided to have a canoe race on the St. Lawrence River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race.
On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile. The North Americans, very discouraged and depressed, decided to investigate the reason for the crushing defeat.
A management team made up of senior management was formed to investigate and recommend appropriate action. Their initial conclusion was a finding that the Japanese had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering, while the North American team had 8 people steering and 1 person rowing. Less than thrilled with the answer, North American management hired a consulting company and paid them a large amount of money for a second opinion.
They advised that too many people were steering the boat, while not enough people were rowing.
To prevent another loss to the Japanese, the rowing team’s management structure underwent reorganization to 4 steering supervisors, 3 area steering superintendents and 1 assistant superintendent steering manager. They also implemented a new performance system that would give the 1 person rowing the boat greater incentive to work harder.
It was called the “Rowing Team Quality First Program”, with meetings, dinners and free pens for the rower. There was discussion of getting new paddles, canoes and other equipment, extra vacation days for practices and bonuses.
The next year the Japanese won by two miles. Humiliated, the North American management laid off the rower for poor performance, halted development of a new canoe, sold the paddles, and canceled all capital investments for new equipment. The money saved was distributed to the Senior Executives as bonuses and the next year’s racing team was outsourced to India.”
Quick, call Mike Rowe and tell him this important news.
AI will replace some inspection jobs, tasks; but somebody has to be around to aim the AI-EYE.
AI “focus” (on investing) could identify a trend of behavior; it could find patterns of market trades that will give the people who can afford such AI “focus” applications, an advantage in some marketplaces. With AI “focus” you could estimate more accurately, market moves based upon the chart histories and historical market information.
That increased degree of probable certainty for the AI “focus” pack leaders (who own these very special AI “focus” applications) . . . and thus high volume buying, would be noticeable; and other investors would try to move with a swelling herd, drawing money away from other companies. In other words, some competing companies would face increasing money problems.
Learn to plumb.
Maybe the MBA wasn’t worth that much to begin with?
Not sure where you are getting this but we are only a few years in and Amazon is planning on humanoid bots delivering door to door by the end of the decade.
“The biggest problem facing humanity in the next 50 years is what to do with unemployed humans and I dread what the elite have planned for us.”
Agreed-
Surplus Eaters - Harrison Bergeron is not enough control.
To begin with I have and MBA. I got it after some work experience, after my graduate engineering degree, and after getting my professional engineer’s license. It was not a “standard” MBA geared toward pumping out entry level employees in huge multinational companies. I customized my electives to include lots of business law, contract law and some courses from the school of engineering in Construction Management. It also included electives on anthropology and sociology. I fought with my advisors who urged me not to take things. I had to get professor exemptions for prerequisites and even a letter from a provost of another college at the university.
The standard MBA brand was destroyed well over 40 years ago. MBA’s were labeled at too risk adverse and too trained in how to find fault with proposals. There use to be a thing as to why companies on the verge of expansion failed, it was called MBA-syndrome.
Two thoughts. Fist is it worth it to go to college? I think that the answer is yes, if you can afford it or have the skills to work part time while in college. College use to be a great place to meet a life partner (wife) and probably still is. It can also be a place to explore electives that interest you and can shape your future. Finally, if you really study it can be a place where you practice lifetime learning skills and where you learn content as opposed to memorizing things for tests.
Now to the question of is an MBA worth it. I don’t think that a standard MBA is worth it, nor did I think that the standard MBA I was urged to take from my advisors 50 years ago was worth it. However, if one picks and chooses one’s courses to match one’s career goals and really learns the content, then it is worth it to the individual.....in the long run. It may not land you the initial job you want, but you will have mastered the skills and knowledge to ultimately succeed.
Stupid move by Amazon. Why use expensive robots when truck drivers work cheap. I can just disable the humanoid with a 2 by 4 and take all his merchandise from the truck.
I was told computers will take my job in 1966. Never lost my job for 1 day in 40 years of working.
EVERY job they’re training for will be replaced with AI as a service.
I was told by one of my employees many years ago that AI would make all of our jobs obsolete, my response was a simple question to him;
“WILL YOUR AI REPAIR MY FLAT TIRE 36 MILES EAST OF BARSTOW CALIFORNIA”?
He didn’t have any answer to that!
I am amazed at the AI hype
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