I think it's a crime and injustice to all the people who worked hard to liquidate their debt. It's all those dumb-dumbs that studied theater in college.
That's quite the oversimplification. If you take a closer look at the job market, wages and opportunities have plummeted, benefits are being phased out en masse. When I graduated with BA and paralegal cert, I was competing with out-of-work lawyers for part-time legal support work. The preparation for middle class life that college was supposed to be is no more, and through perverse incentives, increasingly poor people are pushed towards education as subsidies drive the price up persistently.
Well there is your problem. You studied crap. You are just like an accountant. Overhead. Don't contribute much to the whole. I promise you wouldn't have this problem if you were passionate about computer science and majored in it.
Also, your fields is localized and very narrow in terms of global scope. At least when you work in IT or computer science you play in a global marketplace. Your opportunities are pretty grand. I can move to Sweden or Italy or Germany and milk my skill set to make a living. What the hell can a lawyer or accountant do in another country they're unfamiliar with. Flip burgers.
A theater major is even more worthless. Yes I'm harsh, but that's reality.
LOL. I'm glad you are apparently quite satisfied with yourself and your computer science background. But are you joking that accountants aren't highly in demand worldwide by every mid-sized and up company? Who do you think runs the books in major multi-national companies? Shit, every IT person I've met in my career were just cogs in the machine. Clearly you view this from within the scope of your anecdotal experience, and don't care to address the issues at hand. That's fine. But the question of education in the scope of macro-economics, and with a productive economy in mind, are a little beyond the clearly biased views you present here.
Nah. You're skillset is worthless. Move on.
I think it's a crime and injustice to all the people who worked hard to liquidate their debt. It's all those dumb-dumbs that studied theater in college.
That's quite the oversimplification. If you take a closer look at the job market, wages and opportunities have plummeted, benefits are being phased out en masse. When I graduated with BA and paralegal cert, I was competing with out-of-work lawyers for part-time legal support work. The preparation for middle class life that college was supposed to be is no more, and through perverse incentives, increasingly poor people are pushed towards education as subsidies drive the price up persistently.
Well there is your problem. You studied crap. You are just like an accountant. Overhead. Don't contribute much to the whole. I promise you wouldn't have this problem if you were passionate about computer science and majored in it.
Also, your fields is localized and very narrow in terms of global scope. At least when you work in IT or computer science you play in a global marketplace. Your opportunities are pretty grand. I can move to Sweden or Italy or Germany and milk my skill set to make a living. What the hell can a lawyer or accountant do in another country they're unfamiliar with. Flip burgers.
A theater major is even more worthless. Yes I'm harsh, but that's reality.
it's pretty obvious you know nothing about operating a mid-sized or large company. no such company could survive without competent accounting and legal departments. and IT is
just another such department, and yes, you are most definitely expendable too.
Nah. Clearly you're a bozo.
I owe 6 digits of debt and I think this is an assinine idea. Passing on debt to taxpayers collectively is stupid. I have kids and I know that college will be difficult, but not every person should be going to college. I think people assume you go do your 4 years and you can just walk out with a 6 figure job.
America needs to reorganize and have more technical schools for trade. In India and China you path into medicine from high school more or less. In Mexico you only have 6+3 years of schooling after 6th grade to become a physician. In the US it's 12 grade school, 4 college, 4 medical school - there was so much redundancy in college I was bored out of my mind but the school would let me test out of all the AP classes I took in high school.
The solution is not to get rid of the debt (although it wouldn't hurt to drop the interest rate). The solution is to recognize why it costs 1/4 million dollars to educate somebody with a BS. Unless they're raising Plato or Socrates from the grave it shouldn't cost that much.
I couldn't agree more with everything said.
There is no such thing like free education, someone will need to pay for the debts, but will be all the tax paying people, even those without the benefits of education, an by coercion.
Every citizen benefits from living in a society which has a high level of educations. Countries who have a more educated population need to spend less to fight crime and on the health system, plus they produces more workers who are useful in the global economy and thus are able to pay more taxes which benefits everybody.
Free education is not a good solution, but it should really be more accessible in the United States.
Correct. And America's secret weapon is the H1B. Sucks up all the brilliant minds around the world in exchange for work in the biggest economy and citizenship. There is a reason 50%+ PhDs in the US are foreign born. Some universities have 100% PhDs foreign born. Most of the elites are in high-tech and high-sciences. Lawyers, accountants, etc. are all worthless people. All overhead. All those 'jobs' can be simplified and reduced to nothing. Plus they do no good to the world as a whole. Engineers and scientists build things that benefit the masses. I have no respect for anyone less.
