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Academic Outsourcing or Cheating?

Isn’t learning how to arbitrage time / money / skills a critical understanding for the Gig economy?

Also, don’t we praise ignoring rules that don’t serve you and force your resources into lower yield activities? (Uber, AirBnb, etc)

Where else in the real world do you get penalized for paying someone else to develop IP for you? You can have books ghost written, copy for articles, pretty much anything.

Have there been any studies that show people who outsource papers fair worse later in life?

Aren’t Universites largely a scam to extract money for credentialing leaving students with gross amounts of unbankruptable debt?

- Devils Advocate



Sorry, but can you please argue against your own devil's advocate, because I'm having a hard time coming up with counterpoints, and as a student currently in university, it's left me pretty depressed about my future. Cheating really does seem to pay off both in university and in the real world, regardless of how immoral it is.


Sure. The biggest argument is that integrity trumps being clever.

If you don’t like school, just quit. Trust yourself and endure the pain of going against the mainstream.

Following your bliss and intuition will be the hardest and most rewarding experience of your life.

Find mentors, ignore people who are still contracted in their own trauma / nightmare who will try to hold you back.

If you like, come join us on Majagual.org, I will gift you a journey with us.




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