College May Not Be Worth It Anymore
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College May Not Be Worth It Anymore
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#2The NYTimes republishes a variant of this articles almost every month
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:nytimes.com+college+wor...
The usual answer is "it depends"
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#3College - like a lot of things in life you get out the value that you put in in terms of work.
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#4What was your first clue ? Not all college is worth it, most of the degrees are pretty worthless and exist purely because of federal dole.
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#5The NYTimes republishes a variant of this articles almost every month https://www.google.com/search?q=site:nytimes.com+college+wor... The usual answer is "it depends"
Is it a cronjob?
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#6This massively misrepresents Tim Bartik's work on the topic. Bartik wrote a long thread here:Check out @TimBartik’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/TimBartik/status/996865804179263489?s=09
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#7I assert the expense of college is an awful burden to put on someone who must finance most of it through debt. It's a gamble. You can improve your odds of a happy outcome in that gamble by looking at the Student Loan Default Rate for any given major at any given college, and picking the best program for you (with the lowest default rate possible.)
But if you are a child of parents who can finance your college? Absolutely. No question. This is essentially a way to enforce Aristocracy.
I believe college should be free, and that colleges should limit their number of students in any given program to some sustainable number, where the graduates can actually earn a living.
Not to pick on them, but do we really need this many Art History Majors?
Veterinarian programs specific limit how many students they accept, because if they didn't, their graduates wouldn't be able to afford a living wage. Other majors need to catch on.
And then what if you don't get accepted to a program?
All I've got is Universal Basic Income. And progressive taxes to pay for it all.
Any other thoughts? I welcome honest discussion, because I hope it will inform my views.
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#8The issue isn't that college is pointless, it's that tuition is too high and wages too low. You should support politicians with a plan to counter this trend.
Education is important. Raising the overall level of education in this country should be a much larger goal that it seems to be.
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#9The article takes an exclusively financial look at 'worth it' and completely ignores both education and human connection as an aspect of going to college. I get that the author is writing about money and money alone, but the headline is deceptive.
Additionally, I do understand that a lot of people go to college for the purposes of getting a job. But that's not all college is, and pretending that the only reason anyone values college is the salary level afterwords is missing the most interesting pieces of the discussion. Things like,
-the arts are important for a society regardless of the financial profit from it (i.e., it would be 'worth it' to a society to not force each individual person to earn a living wage for their whole working life).
-college as a mechanism for meeting people, making connections, and learning about the world. Yes, some college experiences can be closed-minded, but that is not the norm.
-many other things. This author is so focused on money, they are missing the forest for the trees.