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Oh look, a communist magazine rediscovered what's great about capitalism. Companies, in the pursuit of private profit, make the world a better place by subsidizing education. Congrats guys, you did it.


If you help someone become an engineer out of self-interest though, it actually doesn't help them, for complex reasons you need a PhD in literature to understand.


If only these companies had set their intention better.


What we really need is to bring in enlightened humanities ethics managers to teach these greedy engineers what it means to love and cherish people.




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