What_Yr_Is_IT t1_j9k4x7v wrote
Reply to comment by The_Dancing_Dolphin in Many Americans need Wendy’s dumpster to afford student loan payments without Biden's forgiveness plan: Survey by TheFleshGordon
Supply and demand drove the cost of education bonkers. There needs to be a rebalancing between manual labor careers and degree level careers.
My parents sent me to college because they didn’t want me to work as hard as they did, but they had no clue what that never meant or what it looked like or what their responsibilities would be. They just thought, hey, I send my kid here and I won’t have to worry about anything!
Today I keep hearing, “electricians make 6 figures” sure, but if you add a million more electricians to the mix to fill the gaps, salaries and job openings will plummet…supply and demand
The issue to me is, colleges are “no risk” meaning their debt is higher quality, it comes from the government, can’t be defaulted on or claim bankruptcy on, sure it’s not fool proof, but there’s a reason there was a huge spike in “for profit” schools.
The_Dancing_Dolphin t1_j9kazsm wrote
At my university when I was there, the dean had an economics phd from an elite school. Tells you everything you need to know on what the schools main focus is. Money
miso440 t1_j9kb6ps wrote
The thing about trades is that you can only do it until you fuck up your back in your mid-50s.
I can tell 20-somethings to round and un-round the corners of buttons well into my 70s.
What_Yr_Is_IT t1_j9kj08j wrote
“I don’t want to to have to break your back like I did”
- every boomer to their children going to college
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