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John Oliver on the Dangerous Posers Climbing Mount Everest in Droves [VIDEO]

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷6/24/2019 9:18:15 pm PDT

re: #347 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I consider dentistry as medicine.

The thing about architecture is that so much of modern American housing has been built from forms and pre-fabs. Even in the old days you could buy a house through a Sears catalog, and those things didn’t require a local architect as Sears paid once for all those houses.

Civil engineering requirements probably scale faster than linearly, if we want to truly cost out environmental impacts.

Civil engineering, whether it is to create new infrastructure (water systems, roads, &c) or simply maintain existing infrastructure, requires civil engineers.

Architects design more than houses or office buildings.

One of our village water pumps (the large one) died a noisy mechanical death. Replacing or repairing a public water system requires more than an apprenticeship or even master of plumbing. Because it affects public health, anyone who works on such systems requires a degree in a field related to that.

Our town went for three years without the required public health board because you need at least an RN to run one in this state. (Our new VA nurse in Sidney was pressured really hard into heading up a new board.) A government public health board deals with everything from disease outbreaks to vector control to arranging inspection for such things as public water and sewage systems.

All of those jobs require some sort of education beyond high school.

Our entire technological society as it exists today depends on technical and university graduates to run. All of it.

Speaking of the days when you could get by on a high school education leaves us with a XIX Century society and economy. (Even then, the wealthy and powerful ensured they got education.)