Re:Big Cities No Longer Deliver for Low-Skill Workers
by intended on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:58AM
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To be clearer, the issue is the hollowing out of the job ecosystem in America.
Economic value now comes from fewer roles, which require specific skill sets to perform.
With more lopsided reward structures (few people corner most of the gains), there is increasing pressure for people to move into the few places where rewards collect.
This ties into the issues like " History majors can't get a job that will help them hold down a house or family".
The societal cost of it is that society becomes a monoculture of a few degrees and sources of information.
The greater advantages of a modern first world society in terms of societal achievement, art, culture and so on weaken.
There’s no jobs for people.
Therefore people try to get college degrees, even if they aren’t suited for it or going to be happy with it.
This drives up the demand for college, and specifically for degrees that lead to jobs.
This degrades the image and purpose of college (students aren’t here to expand their mind. They’re here so that recruiters won’t ding them.)
All of which leads invariably to Downstream issues, like credential inflation and growing student debt.
Eventually, college = jobs, and one of the greatest achievements of America, its liberals arts education, will tarnish and crumble.