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For the parents of our generation, all you really needed to do was show up and squeak by with a 3.0. School was harder, college was harder, and there were more opportunities.

We need to stop pretending that there is one root cause to this problem. The real cause is the degradation in the quality of the American populace.



Ah, so that's why 90% of my colleagues with Ph.D.s in physics didn't get jobs as professors of physics. They just weren't of a high-enough quality.

If only they'd worked 35% harder, the universities would have created physicist jobs for everyone. Yeah, that's how economics works!

You might want to go back to the part about "opportunities".




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