“Professional development is a scam where workers fund their own exploitation with time and money”
Agree
- Skills benefit employers more than workers
- Treadmill never stops requiring more credentials
- Personal investment while wages stagnate
- Obsolescence threat keeps workforce compliant
Disagree
- Growth has intrinsic value beyond economics
- Portability increases across jobs and industries
- Mastery creates genuine satisfaction and autonomy
- Stagnation breeds misery and irrelevance
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