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88. If the signaling value of a college degree is its most valuable part, then we are creating a society that values the appearance of success more than actual success.

Someone might be a bit confused about where the causality arrow is pointing.

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I feel like college has less signaling value in most jobs than it functions as an idiot check, which is really valuable for people fresh out of college with few ways to prove they're not complete idiots.

I'm not saying there is no signal value, or that some positions have more signaling than others. I just don't think it's the dominant factor in the majority of cases.

Can you elaborate?

I meant that 'creating' is rather the wrong tense, and that this is probably a symptom that it's pretty well entrenched by now.

Ah, got it, thank you.

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