LinkedIn CEO says ‘future of work doesn’t belong to people with Degrees’

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More bad news for GenZ

https://fortune.com/2025/10/02/gen-z-graduates-linkedin-ceo-college-degrees-future-of-work-ai-skills-hiring-career-advice/

There is some truth to it.

It's a MAGA talking point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no question that we have to reassess the purpose of college. But I can’t help but think that the sudden anti-higher education sentiment is part of a bigger agenda by the people in power to try to convince poor/middle class/UMC to skip college. Are the elites going to stop sending their kids to college?

Where does Sean Hannity sends his kids?

Answer: Top colleges

Where did Trump send his kids/grandkids?

Penn x 3, Georgetown, NYU, U Miami

Where did the Vances go?

Yale

Where did Kavanaugh attend?

One of the HYPS schools

Where did Rafael Ted Cruz go?

Harvard

Where did Josh Hawley go?

Harvard

Pick any MAGA and see where they sent their kids...There are exceptions, such as Charlie Kirk, who did not finish college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think there's always been some tension with degrees that aren't from the top schools.
If you graduate with an English degree from a small, not well known school, what are your options with that degree? Teaching may be one, if you can get the teaching certificate. You may luck into something that uses your degree. But you may also end up doing something like real estate, that you could have done without the degree. And if you've paid a ton for the degree and have debt, that may feel like a bad deal. With the labor market contracting, I do think the options for people are going to contract. And with AI replacing some of what was previously considered "good" degrees regardless of the school (like computer science, basic programmers or IT support), it becomes even more challenging.
I don't know what the answer is, other than that we probably need fewer people in the labor market, but that is going to be a rough adjustment that no one seems prepared to make.

Sure. You could also end up at Harvard Law if your grades are excellent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh for God's sake none of you read Project 2025 fools, idiots and stupid Americans.

The reason they are spewing this is they want you working for a king ie be his subject poor, desolate, and hungry.

They wrote it down and you fools did not read it.

There will be no college for anyone but white Christian men by 2028. You idiots who have DD and think after 2026 they will be going to colleges in red states also did not read the fine print!

Your aluminum foil hat is on too tight.

That is what I saw with a lot of the insane things T does and then it turns out to be true...

DP

[Anonymous]

Knowledge is power

It’s much harder to control an educated population. Easier to be dictator if people have less knowledge- easier to deceive and manipulate them. The people at the top get highly educated and then play marketing tricks to try to convince as many of the peons possible to stay ignorant and dependent.
Dictators are do as I say, not as I do types.

Everything you learn in school may not be directly used in your profession and that is ok. Every job may not need a degree yet it’s still ok to have one. There is no down side to more knowledge and a degree. … except there is a downside for the man who’s trying to control you.

The choice is get educated or get controlled. The people who want to control you will of course tell you to position yourself to be easily controlled.

This is kinda a no-brainer.

[Anonymous]

This is just a provocative comment. There will always be jobs for college grads. You can also get an education just because you want an education. Too many kids go to college and end up with significant debt but the world has not been upended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need to move to the German model where both people with degrees and people with only hs diplomas have a direct path to a job. So many people go to college with no direction. So many people also graduate high school with no idea of what to do.

Agree with this. And these should be jobs with a living wage.

I've met two tradespeople for bids on some work at my house (probably in their 40s) recently who told me they started out in office jobs (tech and banking) that they left because they were so bored with numbers or just wanted more interaction with people. They both seemed smart and maybe they are exceptions because they're smart and educated. However, just because you can do a job doesn't mean you will like it.

[Anonymous]

My oldest kid is in college and my youngest is in process of applying. There has never been any question they would go to college.

Trades can be good but there is no “trades” equivalent for our daughters. What equivalent pays as well? And yes, there are some women who go into trades but it is such a minuscule number and my daughters just aren’t trades type of girls.

I am very hung ho about education - i can’t think of any other time i. history that not furthering your education was considered a good thing?

That being said - something does need to change. College is becoming just too expensive. There are some smart kids out there but they lack time management skills, executive function skills. All the skills that are needed to do well in college. You can’t just be smart - you have to have those other skills as well. Kids without those skills - is it worth sending them to pricey colleges without those skills and possibly not do well in college?

[Anonymous]

At the orientation for our child's college, they told parents that the jobs our graduates would have when they graduated, didn't exist yet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My oldest kid is in college and my youngest is in process of applying. There has never been any question they would go to college.

Trades can be good but there is no “trades” equivalent for our daughters. What equivalent pays as well? And yes, there are some women who go into trades but it is such a minuscule number and my daughters just aren’t trades type of girls.

I am very hung ho about education - i can’t think of any other time i. history that not furthering your education was considered a good thing?

That being said - something does need to change. College is becoming just too expensive. There are some smart kids out there but they lack time management skills, executive function skills. All the skills that are needed to do well in college. You can’t just be smart - you have to have those other skills as well. Kids without those skills - is it worth sending them to pricey colleges without those skills and possibly not do well in college?

Other people's kids turn in assignments because they have poor executive function.

My kids turn in assignments late because their teachers communicate poorly.

[Anonymous]

Working at a hair salon can pay just as well as a trade. It is something to consider even if people think it is lower class.

[Anonymous]

College gave me nothing. High school was hard with 4 hours of homework daily.
I went to school abroad though.

[Anonymous]

College will always have a role as long as Griggs v Duke Power stands. In that 1970 case, the Supreme Court held that IQ tests could not be widely used in screening for employment. Since Griggs, the use of a college degree as a proxy for IQ has exploded. That is where credentialing comes from. Even the current court is unlikely to throw disparate impact doctrine out the window entirely, so I'll be sending all my kids to college.