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Re:Some 4.5M Japanese aged between 35 and 54 are living with... by falcolas on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @12:24PM (#14148961)
Scholarships are hard to get when you're a white male with perfectly good (but not exceptional) grades. A bit easier when you're a woman, since they have more scholarships earmarked for you.

Most people won't have scholorships, or at least not enough scholorships to cover their entire tuition.

> telling kids that they will be losers if they don't go

It's worse than "mere" peer pressure. A 4 year college education is all-but-required for entry level white collar jobs anymore. A college degree is this century's High School Diploma.

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Re:Some 4.5M Japanese aged between 35 and 54 are living with... by cmahler7 on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @12:54PM (#14149263)
Not really, only 1/3rd of millennials have degrees.

Meanwhile there are tons of trade jobs that don't get filled because there's a stigma against it.

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Re:Some 4.5M Japanese aged between 35 and 54 are living with... by falcolas on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @01:06PM (#14149409)
> because there's a stigma against it.

And they frequently paid really low wages, since they're expected to be filled by immigrants, both legal and illegal. $10 an hour seasonally to pick onions? $15 an hour for a professional welder? Those are near-poverty level wages.

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