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Re:Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping i... by dragonwriter on Thursday September 28, 2017 @12:47PM (#15358646)
> What specific skills will a degreed applicant have that a high school grad won't?

Just as requiring a high-school diploma is a filter for the general education requirements that apply to a diploma, requiring a bachelor's degree in any field is a filter for the level of general education that comes with that, not the domain-specific skills of a degree.

And it's an imperfect filter, but its job isn't to be perfect, it's too reduce the absolute quantity of bad applications that need to be reviewed.

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Re:Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping i... by SilasX on Thursday September 28, 2017 @01:33PM (#15359126)
Right, but now it's effectively become a positional good -- you get the education to indicate being in the nth percentile by general capability. Subsidizing further education then means that people have to get more education (with no additional human capital enhancement on the market) simply to signal being in the same percentile. And refusing the rigamarole just brands you as "different" with its own barriers to overcome.
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