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Therefore, **** college education, right? What bull****.

Unless you have a goal for a "profession," and the ability to absorb
what is taught, college is pretty useless in the job market.
Thinking otherwise is a big "miss" when talking about that.
I always roll my eyes when I hear a pol talking otherwise.
A liberal arts education is thought to make people better "thinkers" and
more able to work well with others. It was good enough to land a lot of
white collar "middle class" managerial jobs in prior economies.
A degree also showed a person's ability to achieve a goal.
Now, for jobs requiring non-specific education, a degree is just used to
weed out everybody who hasn't achieved that goal. It's arbitrary.
Teachers, engineers, doctors and other "specialties" require a degree.
Engineers and doctors face foreign competition.
I think a liberal arts degree is a good thing, but the price has to be
right, and you have to be able to swing that way. Many people just have
no interest in literature, poetry, art, or any of the humanities.
Hopefully HS will at least expose them to that.
A large part of the "middle class" in the past has been manufacturing.
Blue collar, engineers, managerial, sales. And that income got spread
out to a lot of other areas to provide jobs.
Shutting down GM and Chrysler might have caused a depression.
Except for the engineers, none needed college.
But it used to be virtually all appliances and most everything else was
made here. Those days are gone.
There will be adjustment. In the end how that goes will be up to the
people who run the country - the voters. Unemployed and low-paid people
suddenly take an interest in voting, and in who gets their vote.