A Society of Cheats

(theatlantic.com)

6 points | by fortran77 7 hours ago ago

3 comments

  • Avicebron 6 hours ago ago

    https://archive.is/91DZ5

    It's all economics at the end of the day. If you see yourself as having to compete with the entirety of china, india, and wherever else in your classroom so that you can get the 500K starting salary + all benefits vs crushing debt, 45K starting, no health insurance, no chance of home ownership etc, then obviously cheating will be prevalent. Fix the economics of higher-ed and careers, and the academic spirit will return.

    • bell-cot 5 hours ago ago

      > Fix the economics of ...

      Yes...but sadly a cure for cancer seems far more likely. Any real fix would run against far too many entrenched interests.

  • bell-cot 7 hours ago ago

    One wonders how much push-back businesses might get, if they said "don't bother putting any post-2020 college on your resume, we've switched to proctored pencil-and-paper tests of whether you know more than how to prompt an AI".