Here bro, have several decades of debt that will in no way guarantee you a better life.
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2025
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Couldn’t agree more. I know plenty of people (myself included) who have very strong stable careers in a technical field with no degree. College is just another way for the capitalist to get your money. Not saying that college is completely useless, just that it’s a scam for like 6/10 employment fields.
College can make a huge difference in earning potential. An American man with a bachelor’s degree earns an estimated $900,000 more over his lifetime than a peer with a high school diploma, research by the Social Security Administration has found. For women, the difference is about $630,000.
These numbers are skewed, though, because today's retirees went to college in the 70s and 80s, when college was still affordable. Costs were just starting to take off on the 80s, got worse in the 90s, and got stupid insane since then, only taking a short break during the pandemic. There's a good chart here:
https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/college-costs-over-time/
40 to 50 years from now, they'll start looking at the current generation retiring, they will likely find that aside from a very few professions, college graduates have no earning advantage when the cost of financing their education is taken into account. Furthermore, even for those professions (lawyers, doctors, STEM), only a small portion of graduates will show this advantage -- the ones who got good gigs out of college and didn't have to endure a significant period of unenployment.
Is the issue then that college is useless? Or that it is just too expensive?
College turned Into a scam. I advise young people to.never ever take out student loans
a liberal arts education isn't applicable to being a detention center guard or retirement home laundry operator
college education isn't for the kind of shithole the colonies have become
To be fair, most developed countries will be needing a lot more retirement home employees in the coming years.
But yeah, it's not great here.