College-educated workers are taking over the American factory floor

Re:College-educated workers are taking over the American fac... by saiya-jin on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @05:41AM (#21751327)

Man, I get where you are coming from, and good for you all your success. But your opinion is so extremely narrow it doesn't mean much for most of the world. You might step out of your IT bubble from time to time, real world and real people are much bigger spectrum than you seemingly understand.

Reasons are more than I can cover in one post - gatekeeping is real, very super real in most well paid jobs. Nobody hires new accountants, managers, electricians, architects, any kind of engineers, and many more without school. Nobody is going to give them expertise coming from job required to grow. Not all jobs are learnable just from online tutorials and books. You don't want to have your house built by guy who aced some online architecture test but has no degree, do you.

You were lucky and seemingly very talented. That is great, but not a usable advice for maybe 95% of the folks. I don't like how things are, but currently they are like that all around the world and there is no change coming soon.

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Re:College-educated workers are taking over the American fac... by pingyong on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @09:39AM (#21752819)

>You don't want to have your house built by guy who aced some online architecture test but has no degree, do you.

That's not really the primary problem I think, I gladly would. But what I would like even more is an entity (probably a company) that has enough assets that if something goes wrong with the house I can get compensation from them. And this company probably isn't going to hire that guy. That's where the actual problem is.

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