> People still give a shit about this title thing?
I mean, yes. That's pretty much the case anywhere, I don't see how China is an exception. Especially anywhere where there's a lot of competition, employers will use any excuse to choose one person over another. Employers want simple indicators that don't use lots of time and effort to select graduates (most of the time). Then if credentials aren't enough, they're going to resort to interview processes that double as hazing rituals. The reality is that employers can't really effectively measure a persons objective capacity. They are dealing with people who are putting the instagram treatment to their professional image, and employers are made up of humans.
This goes to a deeper issue with human psychology and game theory. No one can afford to comprehensively assess other people, so they resort to all sorts of shortcuts to judge others. It's how bias and stereotyping occurs. This occurs everywhere, not just in education for employment. The very fact that people are judged by their wealth and social standing instead of other factors is the ultimate judgement shortcut, because getting to know everyone personally is a big time investment. So this isn't an isolated case of stuff that only happens in hiring, but to societies everywhere.
So in conclusion:
> The scam is your actual education not the degree you receive.
If this were true, then being an autodidact would be a lot more prestigious than it actually is.
I mean, yes. That's pretty much the case anywhere, I don't see how China is an exception. Especially anywhere where there's a lot of competition, employers will use any excuse to choose one person over another. Employers want simple indicators that don't use lots of time and effort to select graduates (most of the time). Then if credentials aren't enough, they're going to resort to interview processes that double as hazing rituals. The reality is that employers can't really effectively measure a persons objective capacity. They are dealing with people who are putting the instagram treatment to their professional image, and employers are made up of humans.
This goes to a deeper issue with human psychology and game theory. No one can afford to comprehensively assess other people, so they resort to all sorts of shortcuts to judge others. It's how bias and stereotyping occurs. This occurs everywhere, not just in education for employment. The very fact that people are judged by their wealth and social standing instead of other factors is the ultimate judgement shortcut, because getting to know everyone personally is a big time investment. So this isn't an isolated case of stuff that only happens in hiring, but to societies everywhere.
So in conclusion:
> The scam is your actual education not the degree you receive.
If this were true, then being an autodidact would be a lot more prestigious than it actually is.