The Credential Cartel: How degrees replaced competence — and scarcity replaced skill
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45695956
> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45695799
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> > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45529251
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> > > 👇
> > > https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/the-credential-cartel-how-degrees
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> > > The Credential Cartel: How degrees replaced competence — and scarcity replaced skill
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> > > Degrees, licences, and the hidden economics of gatekeeping, where modern work rewards credentials more than competence, and legitimacy costs years, debt, and permission
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> > > A new essay: The Credential Cartel
> > > It explores a question that has become harder to ignore: when did credentials stop being narrow tests of competence and start becoming broad mechanisms of access control?
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> > > The piece examines:
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> > > degree inflation
> > > occupational licensing
> > > labour mobility barriers
> > > competency vs institutional filtering
> > > the productivity costs of over-credentialing
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> > > The core argument is not that standards should disappear. It’s that we should be more honest about what many credential requirements are actually doing — and more willing to distinguish real public protection from simple gatekeeping.
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> > > If you work in education, hiring, workforce policy, regulated professions, or labour economics, I think you’ll find something here worth debating.
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> > > 👇 Read Essay:
> > > https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/the-credential-cartel-how-degrees
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> > > #Credentialism
> > > #DegreeInflation
> > > #LabourMarket
> > > #PublicPolicy
> > > #HigherEducation
> > > #Gatekeeping
> > > #OccupationalLicensing
> > > #FutureOfWork
> > > #Skills
> > > #Competence
> > > #LabourMobility
> > > #Workforce
> > > #Productivity
> > > #EducationPolicy
> > > #Meritocracy
> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45695799
>
> > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45529251
> >
> > >
> > > 👇
> > > https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/the-credential-cartel-how-degrees
> > >
> > > The Credential Cartel: How degrees replaced competence — and scarcity replaced skill
> > >
> > > Degrees, licences, and the hidden economics of gatekeeping, where modern work rewards credentials more than competence, and legitimacy costs years, debt, and permission
> > >
> > > A new essay: The Credential Cartel
> > > It explores a question that has become harder to ignore: when did credentials stop being narrow tests of competence and start becoming broad mechanisms of access control?
> > >
> > > The piece examines:
> > >
> > > degree inflation
> > > occupational licensing
> > > labour mobility barriers
> > > competency vs institutional filtering
> > > the productivity costs of over-credentialing
> > >
> > > The core argument is not that standards should disappear. It’s that we should be more honest about what many credential requirements are actually doing — and more willing to distinguish real public protection from simple gatekeeping.
> > >
> > > If you work in education, hiring, workforce policy, regulated professions, or labour economics, I think you’ll find something here worth debating.
> > >
> > > 👇 Read Essay:
> > > https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/the-credential-cartel-how-degrees
> > >
> > > 
> > >
> > > #Credentialism
> > > #DegreeInflation
> > > #LabourMarket
> > > #PublicPolicy
> > > #HigherEducation
> > > #Gatekeeping
> > > #OccupationalLicensing
> > > #FutureOfWork
> > > #Skills
> > > #Competence
> > > #LabourMobility
> > > #Workforce
> > > #Productivity
> > > #EducationPolicy
> > > #Meritocracy