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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some people just don’t care about prestige and doesn't function well when focused on social mobility. I was a humanity major knowing I could be driving a taxi at the end. Not everyone’s cut out to be a doctor, a lawyer, or an engineer.  This world also needs social misfits, taxi drivers, line cooks, and janitors. [/quote]

Noble jobs, but I wouldn’t want my kid being part of the 50% of Americans who have trouble finding enough money for a $600 emergency. [/quote]

PP humanities major here. I sent my kid to an ivy. I don’t have to worry about her being part of the 50%. [/quote]

No one who goes to 99% of colleges will have to worry about that either. [/quote]

2 million students graduate from U.S. colleges every year. I assure you - that's a worry from a great many of them. Too many idiots getting too many degrees period.

You either have a useless degree or you have a useful degree but you're in the bottom percentage of your class. Either way - - you're screwed.

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Haha that’s literally 0.6% of the US population. College grads kill it over non-college grads on average without even controlling for school prestige. [/quote]

2 million is roughly 40% of the yearly age-group of 18-year-olds in the U.S. So that means every year 50% of the age-eligible population is matriculating to a college/university degree.

Note: 30 million 18-24-year-olds in the U.S. That's 6 separate age-groups and a total of 5 million per group.

[img]https://www.newgeography.com/files/imagecache/Chart_fullnodeview/chartimages/age18-24inusa.png[/img][/quote]

So what’s your point? The rich should go to college (and end up making even more money) and the poor should just not bother and go to trade school?

I bet you tell people “fewer kids should go to college” while of course sending your own kids to college. [/quote]

Not at all. Just that a college-degree alone isn't a solution to most economic problems and the sooner people learn that, the sooner they can teach their kids, and stop whining on the money forum about Biden not forgiving their six-figures in student loans.[/quote]

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