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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Considering college is not 100K a year at 16 colleges and it has been doubling every ten years, the average new born kid could be spending up to 1.6 million for tuition each kid.

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College is clearly on the decline - might not be done in 20 years but it’s struggling and we’re going to see more and more disruptive HS > workplace pipelines. Especially as AI takes over a lot of the “high effort, low skill” professional class work.

Tech firms like Palantir are already experimenting with apprenticeships for talented HS graduates that skip college entirely and land them in $200K+ jobs after completion.

Also trade school apps are at an all time high. [/quote]

Yeah, Palantir is giving a few bright kids big bucks to create a slave model for the US. This shouldn’t be welcome. Getting them pre-college means they have little education, which means they become doers, not thinkers.

The truly wealthy won’t give up college. It’s staggering how wealthy my kids’ college friends are. They will be the thinking class, while everyone else is the scrolling class.

Look at Epstein’s deep ties to Harvard and top scientists. You don’t want these privileged, groomed kids working for Palantir.

Wake up! [/quote]

A bit jealous, eh? Feeling like you followed the rules and ticked the boxes and suddenly the world is leaving you behind? There's something about this when it comes to college degrees. People discovering having advanced degrees or even a degree from HYP isn't the golden ticket they once thought it was? The vanities are being exposed and some people are struggling with it.

Colleges have a useful function. They are also overrated. The concept of a college turning you into a "thinker" as opposed to a "doer" is fiction, most college grads aren't "thinkers versus doers." A lot of crap and silly thinking comes out of college campuses, the Ivory Tower is perhaps the most clueless place in society. And doers, if by that you mean the kids going straight from HS to work at Palantir or other tech firms, can change the world overnight.

College degrees as an useful identifier isn't going away but the relationship to colleges is changing. No one cares if you majored in English at Columbia if all you did was to write papers on transqueer gender politics in Shakespeare. They just see you graduated from college, tick the box, now let's see what you're really capable of. Your internships? What did you do? Can you add value to the business? No? Next, please. Iowa grad with an econ degree and internship at PWC? Know how to use Claude to analyze a hundred datasheets? Hired.

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This!  College is a tool.  What you do with it while there and beyond is up to you.

But fact remains, most careers require a college degree outside the trades, and not having one makes becoming a higher earner difficult (and most people don't want to be in body breaking trades in their 50s+ so it's useful to have another path) [/quote]

The professional class doesn’t understand a substantial number of trades people (the good ones, who go to trade school and make a career of it) are also entrepreneurs who end up selling their roofing company they scaled to 50 employees over 30 years for $30M to a PE firm when it’s time to retire. While making millions a year before that. You think that owner is breaking their back at 50? You see the grunt who shows up at your house to fix the toilet, not the owner who is at their Naples winter house. [/quote]

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