📰 The System of Appearance: Why Does a Diploma Win Over Knowledge?

Discover why the modern system of appearances places diplomas above knowledge. Learn the mechanisms of the skills gap and how to truly build value. Find out now!

https://dobrepanstwo.org/szkatulka-kosztownosci/ustroj-pozoru-dlaczego-dyplom-stal-sie-wazniejszy-od-wiedzy

#credentialism #competencegap #skillsfirst #systemofappearances #signalingvalue

A new essay: The Credential Cartel.
It’s about degree inflation, licensing barriers, and how credentials increasingly function as gatekeeping devices rather than narrow tests of competence. The core question is simple: when a requirement is defended as necessary, is it actually protecting the public — or mostly protecting access?

https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/the-credential-cartel-how-degrees

#Credentialism
#DegreeInflation
#PublicPolicy
#Gatekeeping
#OccupationalLicensing
#Skills
#Competence
#LabourMobility
#Workforce
#Meritocracy

University: "You need our stamp to prove you're educated."

Also university: Teaches 19th-century economics while collecting payment in fiat currency that proves the curriculum is fiction.

The irony writes itself.

#Education #Economics #Credentialism #SelfEducation

Real expertise: "Here's how this mechanism actually functions."

Phantom expertise: "I have credentials (unspecified), institutional validation (from those I defend), and sophisticated language (that pathologises your recognition)."

The second sounds more credible.

The first is actually useful.

Learn to tell the difference.

#Expertise #Credentialism #CriticalThinking #AppealToAuthority

A higher seat at the table of an unjust system, an illusory diversity among the ruling class, is not progress, it is a bribe!
― Muirén Ní Sídach

Chris Hedges and Catherine Liu, author of “Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class” discuss the rejection of liberalism, and the credentialed managerial class war against the working class.
#CatherineLiu & #ChrisHedges
#Culture #Economics #Politics #ClassWarfare #Neoliberal #HyperIndividualist #Credentialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuIb4j_hxSw

Please feel free to share this visual representation of how various aspects of identity contribute to #power and #privilege in our society.

Highlighting the complexity of social experiences & the disadvantages for those without power should help those with power to understand how they attained it without any effort.

#Ableism #Classism #Credentialism
#Discrimination #Homophobia #Intersectional #Linguicism #MentalHealthStigma #NeurodivergentDiscrimination #Racism #Sexism #Sizeism #Transphobia

#Credentialism and #Meritocracy in the United States of America

> Reducing reliance on credentials is also more likely to increase diversity, even when it’s not a stated objective.

/cc @epilepticrabbit @dajb @donpresant

https://hyp.is/abpVzCczEe-D2TdJcYnCbg/www.nytimes.com/2024/06/10/business/corporate-firms-meritocracy-elite.html

"I don't expect anybody with no musical background to get it. I took classical piano for fifteen fucking years, theory, composition, the whole thing, and I'm getting so fucking tired of people saying, 'Oh, it's a rock 'n' roll guy fucking around with electronic music.' That's bullshit. One of these days I'm gonna pull my degrees out and say, 'Does that make me legitimate?' But I don't wanna do that because that's horseshit too."—Lou Reed

#Credentialism is excessive reliance on credentials, especially academic degrees. The term originally was applied to over-reliance on credentials in hiring, but its use has broadened.

Credentials are third-party acknowledgments that the holder possesses the requisite knowledge and clearance relating to a specific field of knowledge. Most are educational in nature, usually a diploma indicating the completion of a specific course of study.

#RationalWiki
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Credentialism