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@MapleCurtain The rise of runaway credentialism as a cultural force (thanks to verbally effluent, status striving shitlibs and elite overproduction) has caused the credential inflation you mention. A one year teacher’s college course has become a post-grad doctorate program, because the accumulation of credentials, rather than work experience or real world results, is the mark of status now.
Credential inflation means flooding the zone with crap like education doctorates that drive down the rarity value of worthwhile doctorates by association with them, and the momentum continues building for ever more credentials to separate the wheat from the chaff.
