| Daldolma |
10-03-2012 11:58 PM |
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Originally Posted by Reikerz
(Post 739540)
Then it wasn't funny. Shouldn't you be begging people for money to incentivize you to write a book or something?
You're right, all those millions of people who are applying to every shit job available and being turned down from all of them are just lazy. So are those people who put in 4+ difficult years of college and completed a degree who can't find a job. Damn people, why don't they just get off their lazy asses and uh... get someone who isn't hiring to hire them!
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Haha, I was with you until the difficult years of college. College in America is an absolute joke and a serious contributor to the state of our economic decay. We drive the costs up by promising every idiot kid that he'll get however much college loan money he needs to secure an education, then we act surprised when a bottom-of-the-barrel intellect has trouble paying back a quarter of a million dollars in loans.
A college education is not a fast track to excellence or high paying jobs anymore. It's a training ground where young adults have to prove they can read, write, and not do anything egregiously stupid before being ushered into their future careers. College today is what high school was in the 50s. We need to stop treating every kid that wants to go to college like he's a future MD and start treating him like the overwhelming likelihood that he will earn roughly $50,000 a year at his peak, assuming he is fortunate enough to find work.
The college system needs to be reformed. The private system is fine, but the loan system is not. If you want to secure loans for a private college education, there should be some massive hurdles to clear -- particularly in the form of standardized tests. Guarantee gradated loans to the top 10% based on standardized testing. The rest can go to public universities, community college, or enter the work force. There is no shortage of positions for manual laborers. But we don't need 20 million arts and crafts graduates of podunk private universities with massive debt that will turn them into slaves for the rest of their lives.
Of course, this will never change because once you guarantee loans for everyone, you can't roll it back and tell parents of dumb kids that their kid doesn't deserve enormous loans for an education they almost definitely don't need and won't utilize. And the corporate world doesn't want it to change, because so long as kids come out of school with debts in the tens of thousands of dollars and unsubsidized interest rates of 8%, they're going to have to take whatever job pays them enough to service that debt. We've got kids forced into careers they don't want the minute they get out of school.
Aside from the obvious impacts that has on the economy, IMO it also has seriously damaged the growth of economy by eliminating potential entrepreneurs. I'm not some hardcore Repub that pushes small business owners like they're Jesus's apostles, but when almost every kid coming out of college is left with a loan that forces them to take an entry-level job, you're obviously eliminating the opportunity for a lot of those kids to put together a plan to start their own businesses or be innovative in any way. They simply can't afford to take out even more loans to drop on a business idea that may fail when they already have loan payments to make. |
