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Anonymous wrote:Mike Rowe has been going on about this forever. He's not wrong, but he's not exactly right either. When it comes to ROI, which is, I think, his big point, there are so many factors at play that you really can't generalize.

Does Mike Rowe have kids? Did they go to college? What do they do for work?

It's funny how all these Con Inc grifters tell proles to set their kids up for be blue collar serfs, but THEY still send their kids to get degrees and work cozy careers in major cities, see also Tucker Carlson who sent all of his kids to UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn’t it interesting that as degree attainment becomes dominated by women, it’s no longer valuable/meaningful? (Along with greater rates of POC and those from lower SES.)

Things that make you go hmmm

Grateful you’re pointing that out.

But it is still valuable and meaningful.

Just because Mike Rowe says something, doesn’t mean it’s true. He would be doing his followers a better service if he encouraged them get a college degree as cheaply as possible, instead of bypassing it altogether.

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Anonymous wrote:He’s absolutely right. At this point most people are just paying for a piece of paper, not an education.

This has not been our experience. What college are your kids attending where they are not learning anything?

Never said they’re not learning anything. But college is less about getting a solid, well-rounded education these days. At best it is an expensive jobs-training program (e.g. engineering) and at worst it is a diploma mill in which the student doesn’t receive a quality education OR useful skills.

Who hangs their degree on the wall? I have no idea where my degrees are. Once every five years or so I clean thr basement and find one. My husband and I have 5 degrees between us, three of them Ivy, and none are on the walls. Nor do we talk about them. You wouldn’t know unless you read out online bios that our employer makes us put up.
The only people who I know where they went to college are the ones who went to big basketball or football schools, because they won’t shut up about the alma maters teams. Everyone knows a Duke/ or UNC grad around March madness time!

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, Mike Rowe is such a a blue collar worker; People, he is a presenter / actor playing a blue collar worker.

From Maryland and he "graduated from Overlea High School in 1980,[1]: 28  where he excelled in theater and singing.[7] He then studied at Essex Community College.[7] In 1985, he graduated from Towson University[8][1]: 28  with a degree in communication studies.[9]"
From Wikipedia

I think the trades are great, and you can make a lot of money and have a good life if you are talented in them.

His background doesn’t necessarily invalidate his opinion.

No, it doesn't. But that's just like his opinion, man. It's not the life he lived.

I have relatives who have done very well in the trades, and they also showed talent very early in life.

My talents laid elsewhere, much like Mike Rowe's and I had to, like Mike Rowe, earn a college degree to pursue them. And, like him, the degree was not from an ivy league school or even close, but it was what I needed.

The world needs all sorts of skills.

Anonymous wrote:He’s absolutely right. At this point most people are just paying for a piece of paper, not an education.

This has not been our experience. What college are your kids attending where they are not learning anything?

Anonymous wrote:He’s absolutely right. At this point most people are just paying for a piece of paper, not an education.

I beg to differ. It depends on what you study. Communications, maybe. Engineering, computer science, math, nursing....I don't think so.

He doesn’t have kids so he likes to tell others how to raise theirs

Anonymous wrote:Mike Rowe has been going on about this forever. He's not wrong, but he's not exactly right either. When it comes to ROI, which is, I think, his big point, there are so many factors at play that you really can't generalize.

Does Mike Rowe have kids? Did they go to college? What do they do for work?

It's funny how all these Con Inc grifters tell proles to set their kids up for be blue collar serfs, but THEY still send their kids to get degrees and work cozy careers in major cities, see also Tucker Carlson who sent all of his kids to UVA.

My high school “friends” on Facebook love him! They also think bill gates was chipping the sheeple

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, Mike Rowe is such a a blue collar worker; People, he is a presenter / actor playing a blue collar worker.

From Maryland and he "graduated from Overlea High School in 1980,[1]: 28  where he excelled in theater and singing.[7] He then studied at Essex Community College.[7] In 1985, he graduated from Towson University[8][1]: 28  with a degree in communication studies.[9]"
From Wikipedia

I think the trades are great, and you can make a lot of money and have a good life if you are talented in them.

I think his wiki is incorrect. I remember reading a couple years ago he has a degree in theater or drama.

Mike Rowe has been going on about this forever. He's not wrong, but he's not exactly right either. When it comes to ROI, which is, I think, his big point, there are so many factors at play that you really can't generalize.

Anonymous wrote:Who?

Con Inc grifter who's never had a real job in his life. Literally a drama/theater major who larps as a tough guy for GOP bucks.

Isn’t it interesting that as degree attainment becomes dominated by women, it’s no longer valuable/meaningful? (Along with greater rates of POC and those from lower SES.)

Things that make you go hmmm

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, Mike Rowe is such a a blue collar worker; People, he is a presenter / actor playing a blue collar worker.

From Maryland and he "graduated from Overlea High School in 1980,[1]: 28  where he excelled in theater and singing.[7] He then studied at Essex Community College.[7] In 1985, he graduated from Towson University[8][1]: 28  with a degree in communication studies.[9]"
From Wikipedia

I think the trades are great, and you can make a lot of money and have a good life if you are talented in them.

His background doesn’t necessarily invalidate his opinion.