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This reeks. There are a lot of good, honest, hardworking people out there without Bachelor's degrees.

• erikerikson 4y ago
  Agreed. And I've also been a part of such systems where the defection on every person's part created a terrible environment over the very smallest of stakes. Most of my favorite people are those you reference but it doesn't make how bad it can get go away and I read the GP as indicating some rather than all.
• Mezzie 4y ago
  There's no contradiction between what he says and what you say. My mother is a hardworking, intelligent person (good and honest? Eh...) without a college degree. She'd probably be identified as the person GP would bond with as having gotten unlucky; her parents wouldn't let her go to school for engineering since she was a girl/she had to run away due to being abused, which stuck her in low level jobs. Then she tried to get an associate's in ultrasound technology but the economy crashed and she couldn't cast her net widely enough to make use of it. Which is its own issue: Even if you meet people who are competent in those positions, they also tend to be very cynical and pessimistic + burnt out. That type of relationship can also be poison, but at the same time the only thing keeping you sane. It's hard.
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