Thread regarding Harvard University/Harvard College layoffs

If you're reading this, you can thank Clayton Christensen

Don't take it personally, it's just efficiency moving it's way up the food chain.

https://bryanalexander.org/classes-and-teaching/learning-innovation-theory-one-exercise/

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And let's not forget Joseph Schumpeter....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schumpeter

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Christensen’s so-called “theory” stems from centuries of poorly thought out conceptions about humans–by seriously flawed thinkers and doers: from Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, and Herbert Spencer to Frederick Winslow Taylor, to the Chicago mob, including Milton Friedman and Theodore Schultz, and to industry officials, including former Treasury Secretary and Harvard President Larry Summers.

Christensen’s Harvard Business School (HBS) ideas have been tested in higher education, so to speak, by for-profit colleges and actually to US higher education in general. And what has resulted? A “racket” of efficiency: starving adjuncts, billions of dollars spent on advertising and marketing, “robocolleges,” “robostudents,” “student loan death,” and a growing army of the “educated underclass.”

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