I know the son of my parents friends always was kind of a loser (according to what I was told anyway). Never finished university, always borrowing money from parents and gasp smoked weed. He created a company at some point, that was basically living off government subsidies, but it worked okay until the government funds dried out and their employees were caught doing shady shit to make more money. So he got an MBA at an expensive university in Toronto. And now he moved to LA and has an awesome 6 figure job at a tech company. This is the only MBA related story I know, told through my judgemental parents lens. I mean, I know the guy and met him multiple times. He's really nice :) But this whole story has put some doubts in my mind about what an MBA is actually for.(Anyone who says MBA will be blocked and mocked mercilessly.)
I've just worked with MBAs for most of my career in the tech industry, and always the most clueless person in the room, with no idea how tech works, is the one with the fresh MBA. The people who actually know what they are doing don't mention their MBAs, or - if they do - it's as a joking aside. "Oh yeah... I got one of those somewhere. I think it's over in that cabinet." The general gist of an MBA is that you have a broad range of business process knowledge that isn't very deep. So it looks good, and you have all the right buzzwords, but any plan you put in place will be destroyed almost immediately upon contact with reality. Because things are hard. And there are a LOT of actual experts out there, who can show you the flaws in any MBA's plan, about 2 levels below the surface.