Re: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)

[Philip Newton]

Roger Burton West wrote:
> - Being employed is a good thing.
> - People with degrees are more likely to be employed, and to 
>   have higher salaries, than people without.
> - Therefore everybody should have a degree, and miraculously 
>   they will all be employed and have higher salaries.

I read in a book about a place where this premise was taken to its logical
conclusion and all residents of a particular state were given college
degrees so that people would be equal.

(It might have been Heinlein's _Friday_.)

Cheers,
Philip
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