• Soggytoast@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Kids keep going to college with the promise of making 400k/year, but normies don’t get that. College is good and all but employers generally don’t care which college you went to, or your major (if not directly related), what matters is who you became friends with in college, and who their parents/uncles are.

    Better off studying something specific, vocational schools, trade schools. Learn something specific, either no or small loan

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      employers generally don’t care which college you went to

      It’s a little worse than that. College provides a useful socio-economic barrier for unethical employers. They can hide in plain sight by requiring a degree, knowing it’s going to cull out a whole class of people. Working to keep college unaffordable may be another part in this strategy; they’re pulling the ladder up at the same time. Parents and students overcommitting on loans are doing all they can to bash back against all this, even if they don’t know it at the time.