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> And like, with all due respect, there were also a lot of mentally undemanding desk jobs back then. People got hired into them with just high school degrees.
by JackFr 3y ago
> And like, with all due respect, there were also a lot of mentally undemanding desk jobs back then. People got hired into them with just high school degrees.
A lot of those jobs remain unchanged, with a college degree now required as essentially an empty gatekeeping step.
> Subsistence farmers have never been prolific producers of art or literature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music
- pnutjam 3y ago"A lot of those jobs remain unchanged, with a college degree now required as essentially an empty gatekeeping step." This is simply untrue. Huge numbers of data entry and switchboard style jobs have disappeared due to automation. Just grab "9 to 5" and see how much paperwork went into jobs before computers.