[backupcavalry]

When I was a teaching assistant in university in Singapore here I knew a guy that ran the same sort of business, albeit for coding assignments instead of essays. He was making a couple of thousand a month - showed me the bank records and everything.

I'll admit, only reason why I didn't sign up was because I was already swamped and sorta lazy - we're talking about like a hundred bucks for something as trite as the first assignment for CS101. Apparently the most generous clients were Chinese students with more money than drive.

[throwawa66]

Wow, the students have a lot of money! And they arent spending it wisely. Whats the point of education if somebody else does it for you? Just the diploma?

[ativzzz]

For many people, the degree itself provides more financial value in the long term than the material the degree teaches.

[throwawa66]

Yeah but all those wasted years in school, wasted time for professors, wasted energy to keep the the school building warm or cold depending on the season, there must be a more efficient way to do things.. There should be a school bypass mode for the manager types who need the diploma but aren't interested in learning anything

[ativzzz]

Unfortunately that's not the way human society works.

> There should be a school bypass mode for the manager types

There used to be. These people could start at a company doing unskilled labor and work their way up to management. But that has pretty much stopped happening in the past 40-50 years. See this relevant HN post from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22231579