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Re:Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash? by fabatka on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:11AM (#14948054)
I think college degree is highly overrated, and higher education is very inefficient overall. But it is like a prisoners' dilemma, where all of the to-be-students would be better off if say 70% of them didn't go to college, but no individual has the incentive to decide so.

They wouldn't need to pay the enormous tuition, and as the job market would change (as far less people would have a college degree), the lack of degree wouldn't hurt them.

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Re:Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash? by notfromhere on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:39AM (#14948291)
College degrees are oversaturated, but there's no real alternative outside of a few fields where education isn't as important as experience.

College degree nowadays is basically a pre-requisite for not getting your resume thrown out at first glance.

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