As part of whittling down my author bio, I’ve taken to stating that I have “a few of those degreed credentials people like.” It’s true.

Vox and Cremieux have more evidence of the uselessness of mass credentialization. Per Vox:

Credentialism is just like peer review: it is a way of laundering the status of the academy to provide assurances. With credentialism, you assure employers, friends, acquaintances, your new mother-in-law, the guy next door, the local HOA, your doctor, your dentist, and your mother’s brother’s high school friend, that you’re the right type of person. But credentialism does this by placing enormous costs on everyone, and because credentialism creates a demand for credentials, it threatens the value of those very credentials by impelling a rat race and generating respected sinecures within credentialing authorities.

Everything about Clown World is a lie. Experts are idiots. Doctors kill people with more ruthless efficiency than soldiers or mercenaries. The media narrative is predictably, observably and reliably false. Schools teach nothing of value. Wealth is comprised of gambling plus debt.

Everything about Clown World is a net negative.

Please note the chart depicting the radical drop in average US college student IQ in Cremieux’s article. Not that it matters to me. I am still proud of the one degree I have not at least provisionally renounced: my 1985 Continuing Education Certificate in Computers from Mississippi State University. Trust me when I talk about computers – I have the credentials. And I’m positive computers haven’t changed a bit in the last 40 years.