Gen Z is giving up on college
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Gen Z is giving up on college
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#2With AI heavily driving into knowledge jobs and the insane value extraction / rent seeking that’s going on in education in the US, that is not a surprise at all. It’s smart.
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#3The NIH grants starting salary for a lab technician that needs a college degree is about 35k. They could make that at a fast food chain and not have 100k in student loans to start out their life with, it’s not hard to see why some might give up on college.
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#4That would be the correct assessment given the return of college vs the cost. Unless you want to be a doctor/lawyer/dentist/engineer, college isn't really worth it.
and to those saying an average college grad makes 1M more per lifetime than a HS grad, that included people who went to college when it was worth it. we need to look at the expected earning of someone joining now, but this as expected, can't be calculated.
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#5How do you expect people to study humanities if you're making it inherently impossible?
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#6Wondering if social media is in part responsible. It seems you can make a lot of money as content creator, especially in NA. I don't understand or believe the COVID story.
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#7Fundamentally, college is about building skills and networking with people. Leveraging AI should be taught in all college curriculum since it is a power multiplier for everyone. This idea that AI is making college irrelevant is completely absurd to me.
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#8How do you expect people to study humanities if you're making it inherently impossible?
Should we expect people to study humanities? A lot of the best software is written by amateurs or hobbyists in their spare time. I'm sure there is plenty of experts on Greek tragedies just because they love it.
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#9>"As a kid, you always imagine college will be a life-changing experience, and that your freshman year is where you'll get a chance to discover yourself"
Well isn't that what happened exactly? He discovered that he wasn't really interested in studying computer science...
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#10> Today, as most of his peers are starting their senior year of college, he's got more than $1 million in venture-capital funding.
Is this meant to illustrate he's ahead in some way?