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Academy: We easily accept language like:
“£200m generated by academy products”
“Return on investment” in these kids.
Universities:
“Our graduates earn on average X per year.”
“Our alumni are in top firms.”
But we don’t see:
“We’ve generated £5bn from the sale of our alumni to corporations.”
“Our students are our most profitable products.”
If a university said:
“The Law School has generated £3bn from selling its alumni to top firms, a very productive era in human exports”
Academy: We easily accept language like:
“£200m generated by academy products”
“Return on investment” in these kids.
Universities:
“Our graduates earn on average X per year.”
“Our alumni are in top firms.”
But we don’t see:
“We’ve generated £5bn from the sale of our alumni to corporations.”
“Our students are our most profitable products.”
If a university said:
“The Law School has generated £3bn from selling its alumni to top firms, a very productive era in human exports”
@vruz Isn't this for the rather obvious reason that employers don't pay universities transfer fees?
@mike No. Please don't make me explain this to you.
@vruz I must remember "Please don't make me explain this to you" the next time someone spots that I've said something completely illogical, and I want to appear supercilious rather than backing down. Thanks for the life hack.
@mike I am trying to be charitable to you.
Not that you are doing this now, I'm only anticipating that going forward, in a hypotetical future, If you ever insist in saying borderline disrespectful, fundamentally dehumanising things, and then in an hypothetical fever, you doubled down saying frankly stupid things, I may not be able to keep so much charity going on indefinitely.
I don’t think you have bad intentions or ulterior motives. But your flippancy turns what could be a meaningful discussion into performance. You — even with all your serious education and obvious sophistication — are choosing to echo the discourse of the most ignorant and brutal elements of society.
That’s the line I don’t want to cross with you. Hope you are able to appreciate that.
... people would likely find that:
- Creepy
- Dehumanising
- Corporate/industrial to a gross degree
Why do we tolerate this kind of language in sports journalism then?
Disgusting.
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