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Yeah, not exactly helping with my prior of "college is a massive, societal level scam"
by some_random 3y ago
Yeah, not exactly helping with my prior of "college is a massive, societal level scam"
- chefandy 3y agoCollege is great and very useful, it's just heavily abused by our society. I think that a lot of well-meaning people in the 80s and 90s saw that people with college degrees were better off, and confusing correlation with causation, insisted everyone needed to go to college so they could also be better off. Well, now we have way more people with college degrees than we need. They've taken on debt that their (government-employed) guidance counselors insisted would pay for itself. Decent paying white collar positions for non-degree holders, like administrative assistant, now require them because of lazy recruiting. And income inequality is worse because you can't resolve structural economic issues with credentials. So you have someone with an expensive English degree from BU answering phones in a CS pool for 35k, and the 'dumb' kids who went to trade school and became electricians have to turn away work at hundreds of dollars per hour because they're in such high demand.