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We're fucked
This was inevitable when all academic institutions were taken over by MBA sociopaths who have no concept of how anything works beyond "line goes up".
Endowments drive me insane. They don't get used to do anything. Just giant dragon hoards.
My alma mater could probably give half a million people free tuition by using its endowment, and they have the gall to beg me for donations and I'm still paying off my loans.
Your alma matter sounds like mine. Their endowment funds are billions of dollars large, but they still have the gall to be "all in" on collecting more. All while their staff are forever striking and churning managers because they pay absolute shit and they do all the gross things to their people that billion dollar corporations do. I'm disgusted I went there sometimes. That I bought into the bullshit for a little bit. Still have never donated a cent though, and never will.
I'm not so sure in the grand scheme we are.
We are all so burnt out and so jaded, in an economy thats so flat and moribund, in a world that's so fucking upside down, that somethings got to give.
These asshole greedy pig CEOs are going to have a complete mess on their hands, when this AI bubble (because it's a bubble) pops, and it's going to be a complete mess. We are going to see companies implode literally overnight, borrowing is going to lock up, and it's going to fuck up supply chains. At a time when they need people to bear down, but everyones been forced to RTO against their will, for flat paychecks while these assholes hoard all the cash flow for themselves at staggering levels.
Personally I think it's going to make the Great Resignation look like a picnic. I'm not always right, in fact I seldom am sometimes, but I'm starting to think the pendulum swings wildly in the employees favor on this one. When shit goes sideways, that's going to also be the moment of the boomer implosion, where all the seventy year old execs and the mid to later 50s guys and gals leave with the bags, and I mean the job needs done, now in a challenging environment maybe. But you've pissed most of your employees off with this AI shit and their flat paychecks, to the point where sure they are hanging on collecting a cheque, but most everybody has quiet quit on you. Could be interesting, maybe.