Seeing more and more help desk jobs ads that require a computer science degree.

For help desk.

For those not familiar with IT, that’s like requiring a master’s degree in international relations to work at Hollister.

Or requiring a degree in chemical engineering to be a short order cook.

Help desk is a difficult job. But it’s not all that intellectually challenging. I know – I used to do it. It requires mainly patience and self-control and a little bit of research skills.

Fastidious fifth graders could do the average help desk job. Probably better than many adults, actually.

When every job requires a PhD and 10 years of experience, what then?

The first comment on Google censoring their search results really said it best.

Censorship in the name of privacy bad. Censorship in the name of corporate interests good.

Hypocrites.

Google is one of the few companies who actually would have the power to tell the RIAA and MPAA to get lost. But that it might temporarily reduce profits 1% makes that untenable.

By the way, entire domestic movie industry revenue, 2013: $10.9 billion

Entire domestic music industry revenue, 2013: $7 billion

Google revenue, 2013: $57.86 billion

In short, Google alone is 3.2 times larger than the entire US music and movie industry combined.

So, yep, it is a choice to censor and yep, it’s also a bad one.

How the people who make this decision live with it, I can’t even begin to imagine.