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> For people in the 60s and 70s, if you graduated high school, you made it. 80s 90s, college, you made it. Now you need grad school for that, but you need colle
by theandrewbailey 4y ago
> For people in the 60s and 70s, if you graduated high school, you made it. 80s 90s, college, you made it. Now you need grad school for that, but you need college for that. The bar for what it takes to make a lot of money is moving up as jobs require more.
I (and probably most others here) must be working in fields where grad school isn't needed to make it. I got a bachelor's degree in 2009, and have been living comfortably (in the fourth and fifth income quintiles) since.
- hindsightbias 4y agoIt seems like the Hackerlariat doesn't account for social status in their anti-college agenda.
- aliqot 4y agoIn a lot of IT segments you don't need the paper, you need the skill, especially engineering.
- feet 4y agoSoftware "engineers" aren't doing any actual engineering, they're software developers and coders
- andromeduck 4y agoIt's grade inflation and curriculum dilution. College degrees are being used as a proxy for basic employability because having a highschool diploma no longer imoles that you can read and write, do basic arithmetic or show up to work consistently.