by Laura Conaway

Conner Corwin, MIT Sloan MBA Class of 2010, likes Planet Money but objects to the comments about MBAs in our Monday podcast. (Those comments would be mine.) Corwin writes:

I am however not the biggest fan of what was said in the podcast about MBAs. You should go back and listen to it, but I'll quote:

(sarcastic tone) "Just look at how happy all those MBAs made the economy....ooooooo.......just sayin'..."

I am an MBA Candidate for the MIT Sloan Class of 2010 and I am personally pretty tired of hearing all the slack we are getting in the news. Yes, if Fox news or some other joke news system wants to talk like that, fine, its their place to make such comments. But from all of my experiences NPR is not like that. I work very hard, I am taking classes and learning methods and theories to FIX the economy, and have personally done nothing to put us in this recession.

 

I would not expect you to say "Look what all those people from the Middle East did to our twin towers" or "Just look how happy those German people made the jews back in the 40s...oooo.....just sayin'...," and I also wouldn't expect you to connect all of us MBAs to the economic crisis.

I think the general agreed upon concensus is that if you want to blame someone for the economy, blame the people who sold (and also those who bought) sub-prime mortgages knowing that they would eventually blow up. Some may have had MBAs and some not. Some may have been black and some white or male or female or fat or slim.

Please don't classify MBAs as people who destroy the economy, because "we" are also the ones who are trying to fix it.