Agree with your comments.
When I graduated HS in 1960, only about 20% would go to college. A higher % got married or entered the military. The majority of grads had been working at part time jobs since age 14-15, in restaurants, grocery stores, auto body shops, etc.
The brainwashing by the idiots in academia and government that EVERYONE just has to have a college degree, at an exhorbitant cost, is total BS. ....That’s a major factor in the loss of manufacturing industries and trades in America. Why the hell would a manfacturing concern, or anyone else, want to hire someone with a degree in Gender Studies or Black Studies?
“Why the hell would a manfacturing concern, or anyone else, want to hire someone with a degree in Gender Studies or Black Studies?”
Government intervention I suppose. It’s an additional cost of doing business in today’s world. I think bigger companies have to meet government minority quotas as required by law and those wanting to conduct business with the current government regime must have minority representation to be eligible. Minorities often possess such degrees so they get hired to fulfil minority quotas.
Outside of that, the degree is practically useless unless they want to teach at some liberal institution.