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It's already happening in some places. E.g. here in eastern europe. After USSR fell, everybody wanted to go to university. Because during soviet times you'd ge
by mantas 7y ago
It's already happening in some places. E.g. here in eastern europe.
After USSR fell, everybody wanted to go to university. Because during soviet times you'd get assignment to a cushy job for life. Yet people missed that it's over and just having a degree from random university won't land you a job.
Thus we have a shit ton of not-so-talented poorly motivated people with a degree. And a lack of tradesmen. End result is that a professional (show up on time, not drunk, do job up to specs) tradesman easily makes 2x or 3x salary of average citizen with university degree. Let alone it's hard to land a job in one's specialty because the market is overcrowded.
Thankfully the trend is slowly reversing. Since the '08 crash tradeschools enroll more and more people. There's still a massive gap to be filled.
- badpun 7y agoYep I see the same thing in Poland. The thing is, to do most modern white collar office jobs well, you need to be somewhat intelligent, while the people who got their worthless degrees from degree mills are most often just average. They cannot learn quickly, they cannot communicate efficiently, they don't have an "active mind" that is always looking for a better solution. They are ok paper pushers, but the mindless office jobs are getting automated, and what is left is the jobs which require intelligence.