Need to come up with a long term strategy for dealing with credentialism. One obvious example comes from the military a couple centuries ago, buy and sell mili

Need to come up with a long term strategy for dealing with credentialism. One obvious example comes from the military a couple centuries ago, buy and sell military officer commissions. I think this could work. If the primary purpose of credentialism is stealth enforcement of demographics, making it starkly monetary instead of stealth monetary isn't going to offend those people. Another interesting aspect is spending your late teens/early 20s in school was, centuries ago, kind of a day care for young adults old enough to get into trouble and young enough to be utterly unable to run the family business (being nobility, owning a factory, stuff like that). So you need a new day care for kids who aren't old enough to play in the big leagues but too old to sit around and get in trouble all day. I propose mandatory national service. There's always .mil or peace corps, other alternatives could be envisioned. Some kind of 1930s CCC organization, perhaps. Something has to be done... there's not enough jobs to employ 22-67 right now, so increasing working years to 18-70 in the future will just doom us. Maybe lowering retirement age would help, what with natural ageism anyway, working years from 18-59 might be the ticket. You can either lower the upper limit formally and cheaply, or informally via ageism and welfare expensively, so may as well minimize costs. Besides, old people vote, and dropping to 59 will probably sell pretty well, so from a practical political view this is required. If anyone has a better anti-credentialism strategy than buying/selling degrees, or a better baby sitting idea than national service, please reply.