Re:Girls in Yoga Pants Explain the Higher Education Apocalypse
by ambientenv on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @06:07PM
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Apparently, kids aren’t going to college anymore.
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Re:Girls in Yoga Pants Explain the Higher Education Apocalypse
by codefreeordie on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @07:01PM
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In particular, male kids aren't going to college anymore (one source among many: https://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethbradley/2022/02/03/men...), so you probably actually can't blame girls in yoga pants (though honestly, having read the article, I have no idea what the bit about the yoga pants is about)
Re:Girls in Yoga Pants Explain the Higher Education Apocalypse
by yetanother4968 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @07:06PM
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It’s so the article can have a clickbait title.
Re:Girls in Yoga Pants Explain the Higher Education Apocalypse
by AdrianB1 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @07:13PM
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Which makes the situation quite interesting: hypergamy and the wage gap are already in direct contradiction, now it is worse than ever with the bulk of college graduates being women. I am not sure if society is doing a suicidal move or something else.
Re:Girls in Yoga Pants Explain the Higher Education Apocalypse
by lmm on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @07:31PM
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Women are paid about 1% more than men for the same job once you control for hours worked (and the difference is attributable to more education).
Re:Girls in Yoga Pants Explain the Higher Education Apocalypse
by ralph84 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @07:30PM
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Traditionally the surplus males were sent to die in wars. Now that war doesn’t require so many bodies who knows what to do with them.
Re:Girls in Yoga Pants Explain the Higher Education Apocalypse
by AdrianB1 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @07:38PM
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We don't have a surplus of men, we have a lack of men: there are not enough highly educated and high earning men for all the women that want a superior men to them (the definition of hypergamy). You cannot find a partner for the 60% women in college, there are just 40% men and dropping.
Re:Girls in Yoga Pants Explain the Higher Education Apocalypse
by thrown_22 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @08:43PM
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The West already committed suicide in the 1990s when fertility rates plummeted. There aren't enough women in reproductive age today to keep the age pyramid from getting inverted. We're putting a band aid on it with mass immigration but the same thing is happening everywhere including Africa.
Yes, overpopulation is a problem, but an overpopulation of 60+ year olds is even worse.
This is like trying to stop a car driving off a cliff by driving into a tree.