I Have Written Time and Again

a college degree is a piss-poor substitute for a union card. The vast majority of jobs don't require a degree but either some vocational training or prior experience in the field. Most jobs are low-paid, "entry-level" occupations.

The value of a college degree has always been overhyped, but things are beginning to change, and not for the better. The multinationals know this, and that's why there is such a push to deskill teaching, up the ante of "requirements" for students beginning in preschool so as to keep them away from higher education.

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