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Re:The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyon... by nvy on Friday July 07, 2023 @02:05AM (#36627826)
>But even students treat it as such. Many of the people I know went to get a degree because they believed "they had to", not because of an intrinsic desire to learn.

They're responding rationally to a fucked up employment market that erroneously views education as an employee production pipeline.

If those perverse incentives disappeared, we'd see students more able to study what they want, not what's marketable on a resume.

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Re:The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyon... by constantcrying on Friday July 07, 2023 @03:12AM (#36628281)
Very few people, even in the west, are so privileged that they can spend years of time on full time education with no chance of economic gain.

If the perverse incentives of employers demanding significant amounts of ultimately meaningless education, people wouldn't go to universities. They would just go directly into training for a job (which has been the human norm up until a few decades ago).

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