Writing papers for American college students has become lucrative overseas

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Re: Writing papers for American college students has become lucrative overseas

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Post by bsanr2 » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 4:03 PM UTC

leetcrew wrote: post #100

bsanr2 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see these type of comments as an underemployed college grad and don't know how to feel.

step one is don't feel bad. it really is a numbers game. some of the companies you're applying to don't actually want to hire anyone for the position right now. some of them are desperate to get anyone with a pulse yesterday . it's all about timing, but you don't usually have a way of knowing when the time is right. just keep rolling the dice; you'll get a bite eventually. I got an internship that lead to my first fu…

Here's my issue:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/25/three...

https://www.epi.org/publication/labor-day-2019-racial-dispar...

So while what you say is true, my potential network is necessarily limited. Working in retail, I still met plenty of people who wouldn't even let me assist them because of my race. I think this may go beyond personal qualities.

Re: Writing papers for American college students has become lucrative overseas

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Post by GnarfGnarf » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 7:14 PM UTC

adolph wrote: post #71

GnarfGnarf wrote: post #34

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire. Will the students who purchased these essays go on to build bridges, rockets to the moon, cure cancer? Hah... Interestingly, there is probably little or no supply of German, Dutch, Scandinavian bootleg essay mills.

Uh, the “American” rockets to the moon were built by Germans, former Nazis picked up by Operation Paperclip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip Some were even accused of crimes against humanity after they were done with rocket work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rudolph

It takes more than science to go to the Moon. It takes money, and most of all organization and management skills. The U.S. is good at the latter.

When Nazi scientists were imprisoned after WWII, they were secretly recorded as saying they could not believe Americans had built the A-bomb. Even though the Germans had the scientific knowledge, in-fighting and jealousy prevented them from cooperating. They never could have mustered the resources, coordination and leadership required to achieve a practical bomb. For example, the precise refining of tons of ore to get uranium.

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