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前纽约市长彭博(Michael Bloomberg)10日在华尔街证券及金融市场委员会(SIFMA)
年度大会上老调重弹,给即将升大学的高中生们一点忠告,别只一股脑想上哈佛,当个
水电工还比较实在!
身为全球商业金融资讯服务业的泰斗,彭博非但不支持升学主义,反而还要拼命想
顶著哈佛光环的顶尖生们动脑计算一番,究竟洒钱进名校是否值得。
他指出,哈佛每年学费约5万至6万元,反观当水电工学徒一年也能挣那么多钱。彭
博举一名员工的水电工父亲为例,「他雇了六名工人为他工作,利用业余时间打高尔夫
,到各种连我都只能梦想的场地打球…他从未念过大学。」
彭博说,随著科技发展,中阶工作逐渐被电脑取代,薪资水准跟著下滑,低阶工作
的重要性反而提升。
不过值得一提的是,倡议抛弃学历主义的彭博,毕业于约翰霍普金斯大学与哈佛商
学院。
Former New York City Mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg has some advice
for high school seniors: forget college, become a plumber instead.
"Today if your kid wants to go to college or become a plumber, you've got to
think long and hard," said Bloomberg Monday at the annual meeting of Wall
Street trade group SIFMA.
"If he's not going to go to a great school and he's not super smart
academically, but is smart in terms of dealing with people and that sort of
thing, being a plumber is a great job because you have pricing power, you
have an enormous skill set," he said.
The founder of financial data and news services company Bloomberg L.P. even
went as far as to say that students considering Harvard should do the math.
You could pay $50,000 to $60,000 a year to Harvard or you could make that
much as an apprentice plumber, he explained.
Is college worth it? Bloomberg -- who attended Johns Hopkins University and
Harvard Business School -- knows what it takes to build a business, and he
sees a lot of opportunity for middle class Americans entering the service
trades.
He mentioned the plumber father of one of his employees to help make the
case.
"He's got six plumbers working for him, he's a scratch golfer, he goes
around playing golf courses I only dream about," quipped Bloomberg, drawing
chuckles from the audience. "He's built a business, he's had a chance to do
that. He never went to college."
The former mayor claimed that such careers are more important now than ever
as technology has made it so middle class professions don't pay like they
used to. He believes that's why the latest labor statistics show that wages
remain stagnant even as employment has gone up.
"In law firms now you hit a button and get research. It used to be law
clerks looking through books," said Bloomberg.
Is the American dream still alive? His remarks were echoed at the SIFMA
event by David Rubenstein, co-founder and CEO of private equity behemoth The
Carlyle Group. He pointed out that neither of his parents graduated from
high school and his father worked at the post office making $7,000 a year.
Still, he was a big believer in the American dream.
"Today many people in our society do not believe any longer that if you work
hard, you go to school, you get a scholarship and you can get to the top,"
Rubeinstein said. "The idea that social mobility is gone, that is a big
problem and a residue of the great recession."
年度大会上老调重弹,给即将升大学的高中生们一点忠告,别只一股脑想上哈佛,当个
水电工还比较实在!
身为全球商业金融资讯服务业的泰斗,彭博非但不支持升学主义,反而还要拼命想
顶著哈佛光环的顶尖生们动脑计算一番,究竟洒钱进名校是否值得。
他指出,哈佛每年学费约5万至6万元,反观当水电工学徒一年也能挣那么多钱。彭
博举一名员工的水电工父亲为例,「他雇了六名工人为他工作,利用业余时间打高尔夫
,到各种连我都只能梦想的场地打球…他从未念过大学。」
彭博说,随著科技发展,中阶工作逐渐被电脑取代,薪资水准跟著下滑,低阶工作
的重要性反而提升。
不过值得一提的是,倡议抛弃学历主义的彭博,毕业于约翰霍普金斯大学与哈佛商
学院。
Former New York City Mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg has some advice
for high school seniors: forget college, become a plumber instead.
"Today if your kid wants to go to college or become a plumber, you've got to
think long and hard," said Bloomberg Monday at the annual meeting of Wall
Street trade group SIFMA.
"If he's not going to go to a great school and he's not super smart
academically, but is smart in terms of dealing with people and that sort of
thing, being a plumber is a great job because you have pricing power, you
have an enormous skill set," he said.
The founder of financial data and news services company Bloomberg L.P. even
went as far as to say that students considering Harvard should do the math.
You could pay $50,000 to $60,000 a year to Harvard or you could make that
much as an apprentice plumber, he explained.
Is college worth it? Bloomberg -- who attended Johns Hopkins University and
Harvard Business School -- knows what it takes to build a business, and he
sees a lot of opportunity for middle class Americans entering the service
trades.
He mentioned the plumber father of one of his employees to help make the
case.
"He's got six plumbers working for him, he's a scratch golfer, he goes
around playing golf courses I only dream about," quipped Bloomberg, drawing
chuckles from the audience. "He's built a business, he's had a chance to do
that. He never went to college."
The former mayor claimed that such careers are more important now than ever
as technology has made it so middle class professions don't pay like they
used to. He believes that's why the latest labor statistics show that wages
remain stagnant even as employment has gone up.
"In law firms now you hit a button and get research. It used to be law
clerks looking through books," said Bloomberg.
Is the American dream still alive? His remarks were echoed at the SIFMA
event by David Rubenstein, co-founder and CEO of private equity behemoth The
Carlyle Group. He pointed out that neither of his parents graduated from
high school and his father worked at the post office making $7,000 a year.
Still, he was a big believer in the American dream.
"Today many people in our society do not believe any longer that if you work
hard, you go to school, you get a scholarship and you can get to the top,"
Rubeinstein said. "The idea that social mobility is gone, that is a big
problem and a residue of the great recession."