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> Especially at a time where menial jobs are at great risk due to outsourcing and automation. This is what is so frustrating to me. Tons of people on this site
by TheAdamAndChe 9y ago
> Especially at a time where menial jobs are at great risk due to outsourcing and automation.
This is what is so frustrating to me. Tons of people on this site say "more people should be going to college because the lower class is getting screwed," but fail to acknowledge that an enormous chunk of the population is mentally unable to obtain a degree, and that higher degree attainment rates doesn't help the issue because it devalues the degree and makes it where young people basically must get a degree to get a good job, forcing an entire generation into massive amounts of debt before even starting their career.
Instead of expecting the half of the population with IQs lower than 100 to suddenly get an advanced degree and move to a large city, we need to do something about the negative effects that globalization and capital concentration have had on our nation. We need to make it so that quality of life for our lower class goes up as time goes on, not down.
- bllguo 9y agoRight. These people are getting hammered. We have to find a way to let them be productive at something that isn't simple enough to be done by machines or laborers in developing countries. College is not feasible for them, but neither is neutered education.