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exceptions exists everywhere, do I have to introduce a disclaimer for the 1% of everything or can we have a discussion of the general case without people having to nitpick every word?

heck, I even didn't use an absolute

> for the most part




Yes. Do you think 99% of people who go to college are self-thinking and not corporate drones? Why do so many of them move on to work at corporations?


> trade school [] are optimized to make corporate drones

I mean, I'm not a native English speaker but it seems pretty clear to me I was NOT talking about college output, quite the opposite actually.


You must understand that we’re talking about trade school as an alternative to college, so if you point out some stunning detractor toward trade school, you’re implying the detractor does not exist for the alternative.

Maybe I took that implication to an extreme end, but calling out trade schools for producing “corporate drones” absolutely bears the implication that you believe the alternatives are different / not as bad.


> you’re implying the detractor does not exist for the alternative.

no? what kind of crazy dichotomic logic is that? you're way overthinking it.

> Do you think 99% of people who go to college

moreover college output has a lot more variation than trade school output, so assuming that the proportions of outcome are the same is as well something that was never claimed.

> You must understand

you just dropping things I never said and argue as if I said them, how does one go and debate or understand that? it was never my point to begin with!

jesus, 6 post ago I made one point: trade school aren't providing the titles one would go get to optimize for class mobility, heck, the rest isn't even a point of discussion really, the whole idea on which trade school are based on is to bake blue collar workers.


Haha, whatever you say.




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