I agree completely about that underlying issues need to be addressed.
The idea that everyone should get a college degree these past several decades really screwed us over in the long run. It eventually made a college degree pretty useless in itself. I think a college degree today is worth what a high school diploma was in the 50s and 60s. Back then a man could get a good job with just a HS diploma and support himself and a family in a fairly comfortable fashion.
Today you need a college degree to get pretty much any non-labor or menial job. Just a basic front desk job where the hardest thing you do is file paperwork and answer the phone requires a damn 4 year degree these days. It's ridiculous beyond belief.
People looking down their noses at trade crafts has also been a factor. Why plumbers and mechanics and electricians and welders and such have been so belittled as careers is beyond me. All I can figure is that snobbery won out over common sense.
Anyway, all of that is just my opinion, and we all know what they say about opinions. 😁
I agree completely about that underlying issues need to be addressed.
The idea that everyone should get a college degree these past several decades really screwed us over in the long run. It eventually made a college degree pretty useless in itself. I think a college degree today is worth what a high school diploma was in the 50s and 60s. Back then a man could get a good job with just a HS diploma and support himself and a family in a fairly comfortable fashion.
Today you need a college degree to get pretty much any non-labor or menial job. Just a basic front desk job where the hardest thing you do is file paperwork and answer the phone requires a damn 4 year degree these days. It's ridiculous beyond belief.
People looking down their noses at trade crafts has also been a factor. Why plumbers and mechanics and electricians and welders and such have been so belittled as careers is beyond me. All I can figure is that snobbery won out over common sense.
Anyway, all of that is just my opinion, and we all know what they say about opinions. 😁