Posted by alexandra_k on March 30, 2022, at 17:57:40
In reply to we are going to be the next silicon valley, posted by alexandra_k on March 30, 2022, at 17:51:37
no but really, here is what silicon valley means to us:
money!
something from nothing we are making money!
we think we will get a bunch of students to pay us. they will pay us. they will pay the university.
we can get our jollies filming them in the bathrooms and arranging for them to get drunk and drugged and sexually violated while we film it all and megaupload it...
and they will do what we say when we say because we say -- otherwise we won't give them their degree. because we do whatever we want whenever we want because we want. if you don't understaaaaaaaaaaand that that's the goal or purpose or aim of the education act then you don't understand what it meeeeeeeeeeans for there to be a statute in new zealand.
so...
now we will have 'hackathons' and various events where we give you tasks to be soooooooooo competitive about. falling over each other for our praise and affection! falling over each other to be picked out as special! that's what needs to happen for you to be paid -- right? years and years and years of you flirting with us trying to get us to direct our 'affection' and inappropriate attention your way. right? see how the students are begging for it?
and in this manner...
we can induce them to be sufficiently inspired and motivated to work 12 or 18 hour days... for days on end... weeks... months... years? doing all the programming tasks we want done.
i mean... whatever we want done. just call it a 'hackathon' and be like 'it's soooooooo competitive! the winning team might get an entry level job on graduation!' and then the little money-cows will get busy handing over their money and handing over their work.
and so you have a 'workforce' of students doing all the work. while playing the university. while handing over the work outputs.
that's what silicon valley means to us.
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