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Originally Posted by Gridlock
I completely agree with you. I was in university at 19-right after high school. I did not really know what I wanted to do, and really I was not even focused on school. I dropped after 1 year, and owed 10,000. NOw-a lot of that was my fault-I could have worked at a better job in the summer, and I rented a kick-ass apartment to live in. Could have worked during school and probably drank a whole lot less.
Higher education is now meaningless. If everyone has a degree, then a degree does not differentiate you enough to be the higher earner that could pay for it.
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School is merely a tool to help you build out your career. Think of it as a hammer. You can use that hammer to build a house, build another person's house, sell it, make it fancy and patent that hammer etc. That's what education is, a hammer or perhaps a nice saw. Having a hammer around doesn't hurt. Like having school around doesn't hurt - unless you paid $100k for that hammer you don't know what the fuck you're going to do with it.
Right now in the states, a lot of people paid for that expensive hammer, and not much other people are willing to work with the newbies with these expensive hammers. Why ? Perhaps there are no new projects to build, no new houses to make, no new boats to fix etc. No Why is that ? America is the richest country in the world, people in this country surely want the services of this newbies with new hammers so they can train them and make them do projects and such. As it turned out, a few bandits robbed a lot of people in all the neighborhoods in the country. As a result, everyone has less money. Not as much money available to build new projects.
The funny part is, the government said it was ok for these bandits to steal the money. Hell, the government even even passed laws such that the bandits can do this. Even when people tried to get their money back, the government protected these bandits. Clever bandits, stupid people. These people voted for this government to help get their money back. Stupid people and their expensive hammers.