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this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2024
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It's a catch-22.
Go and get debt for a degree you'll never actually use or don't and people who did get jobs that don't need a diploma over you because they have it.
The solution was expanding public education again. Used to be normal to stop going around sixth grade because you could get a career with just that, only white collar required a HS diploma. Then everything required HS and white collar needed Bachelor's degree.
Some places do t require a degree, but still use it as deciding factor.
We need to just do at least 2 years of community along with Highschool, if not full on bachelor's. Lots of other countries do it, hell, the school I went to in Hawaii was full of Nordic students because part of their free college included a semester abroad to learn about other cultures.
Really made sociology awkward tho when we kept talking about how shit America was and all our problems when the majority of the class came from countries who sorted it out long ago.