From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!mitccc!jfw Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics,net.cse Title: Re: degrees to be part of divorce settlements? Article-I.D.: mitccc.338 Posted: Wed Feb 16 19:51:58 1983 Received: Mon Feb 21 20:02:35 1983 References: hplabsb.1361 My own thoughts on making degrees part of divorce settlements: Placing a cash value on such an intangible seems to be logically foolish (which, of course, has *nothing* to do with law). My own degree in CS (and those of many others on the net) seems to hold the promise of greatly lucrative payoffs from now until my fingers fall off -- but what if someone develops the Ideal Programmer's Apprentice that takes a rough English sketch of what a program should do, translates it into optimal assembly code and even writes the MAN(1) page for you? A lot of ``highly paid'' programmers are going to be out cleaning disk packs... Or suppose that I decide one day that I would rather be an avant-garde painter [or for a concrete example--a music teacher here at MIT who gave up a CS job for a music teaching job at U of somewhere for .50 as much money]. Don't ask me what the right solution is, I have long felt that most people are terminally broken to start with...were they not, there would be far fewer divorce cases, and no cases where each party is out to do metaphysical violence in one form or another to the other.