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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We need to stop looking at a degree as an automatic "upward mobility" button and start looking at it as a high-risk capital allocation. The data is clear. we have a massive surplus of low-value degrees and a labor market that is already starting to discount them. Unless your child is attending a top-tier target school where the institutional prestige acts as a hedge against mediocrity, they are likely walking into an underemployment trap. Johnny from State U is graduating with six-figure debt into a world that doesn't need another generalist with a "Business Administration" degree. We’ve flooded the market with credentials, and in doing so, we've rendered the mid-tier degree effectively worthless for anything other than basic administrative work. but no problem….at least they recorded their fair share of TikTok dances in their SEC sororities….
The "dumbification" of American higher ed is the quiet crisis no one on this board wants to admit. To keep the tuition checks flowing, universities have traded academic rigor for "student satisfaction" andt grade inflation. We are producing a workforce that can follow a rubric but lacks the cognitive stamina for first-principles thinking or problem-solving. While parents are busy comparing "Little Ivies," their kids are losing the ability to synthesize complex information without a digital crutch. We’ve turned college into a four-year delay of adulthood where students learn to navigate bureaucracy instead of mastering a competitive skill.
If you think the ROI is bad now, calculate the impact of AI over the next four years. If your kid is a freshman today, they will enter a 2030 job market where agentic AI has already cannibalized the majority of entry-level white-collar tasks. The "junior analyst" or "entry-level coordinator" roles that used to be the traditional starting point for college grads are being automated out of existence. We are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to train kids for roles that a $20 monthly subscription will do better and faster by the time they graduate. If your child isn't in the top 5% of their field or pursuing a specialized technical trade, you aren't buying them a future…… you're buying them a very expensive seat at a table that is being removed from the room….

Anyway…..keep it up….[/quote]

Your concern is understandable. The reality is our kids generation is going to thrive. Industrialization freed up humanity from mundane daily tasks and gave up plenty of time to focus on next innovation called Internet. Internet provided us access to world's knowledge and made us much smarter. This led to technology evolution and automation of many other human tasks. The knowledge access/automation/technology freed up human time and only led to next Innovation called Artificial Intelligence (AI)/ Robotics / Space Exploration. Before AI, Human still needed to perform the mundane task of  going through 100 of blue links (websites) to get the knowledge he/she wants. This takes serious time. AI only frees us up from this mundane task of going through 100's of links. Obliviously the same AI leading us into Physical AI (Humanoid robots, self-driving cars are only the beginning). The next generation of kids will make the STARTREK a reality, weather we believe it or not. The next generation is going to build structures that are so huge and humongous, like we have never seen before (And these will be on earth, space, other planets). They will be super busy (if they are passionate) in the age of AI. So bottom-line is we DO NOT need to worry about next generation. History is the proof. AI will only take away mundane tasks, which may not be interesting to us anymore. AI is just an advanced tool, nothing more, nothing less. The future needs all kinds of expertise, not a single one. Weather you get that expertise by going to business school, technical school, arts school or not going to school at all; it is kids and parents choice. Only bottom-line is ,one need to be an expert, in one of the useful aspect of the society. On top of all these aspects, U.S as a country is getting more powerful and recently we are trying to make more jobs available for our next generation, for the kids born and brought up here. So future is certainly bright for the next generation kids. Unfortunately current parents need to adjust and adopt to the quick moving AI. Good luck and hopefully this response brings you solace.
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