[CaptainAmiigaf]

And you end up with a country whose people cannot find the skilled trades people who, though they merely work with their hands, are the only ones who can keep this so-called hi-tech society running.
The professor of “Early French Something” doesn’t realize his life is dependant on the skill of that non-English speaking auto mechanic who fixed his brakes. The Social Justice instructor can’t find a plumber to stop the leak in the cellar.
And in my trade, I sit in Massachusetts as a package arrives from Arizona because its owner can’t find anyone there to repair his ********.
I bet there will be a “COLLEGE crash” within a very few years. In plain words, in too many cases, “IT AIN’T WORTH IT”.

[from occupied ga]

And you end up with a country whose people cannot find the skilled trades people who, though they merely work with their hands, are the only ones who can keep this so-called hi-tech society running

Too much of an oversimplification. As fewer people get into the trades - the demand goes up along with the wages for skilled labor. Then more people are attracted to the trades thus increasing the number of people who know how to fix stuff. (But oddly the rates for fixing things seem to stay high)

[Dr. Sivana]

The professor of “Early French Something” doesn’t realize his life is dependant on the skill of that non-English speaking auto mechanic who fixed his brakes.

Actually, those guys generally weren't so bad. For one thing, a true expert on the French Revolution might have a greater appreciation of the auto mechanic than Suzy Silverspoon. Unfortunately, those western civ./lit guys have been replaced with Post-Modern French Existentialism, etc. Montesquieu has been replaced by Sartre. Of course, a lot of this stuff started with two Frenchies, Rousseau and Descartes. Then, the Krauts picked up the ball and ran with it (Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, etc. ), and the rest is history.