This is actually a good thing.
Young people have been paying a “stupid tax” by borrowing money for college when they do not belong there.
Now they can become incompetent and useless state workers without getting in debt to do so.
;-)
Absolutely correct. Unless you’re going into a hard science, college is a complete waste.
Back when I graduated from high school (1973), it was thought that only the top third of your class should go to college.
The second third should maybe consider a community college, trade or business school.
The bottom third should enlist or go directly to work and get on the job training.
Now college has been dumbed down to the point that there are so many useless degrees and institutions of higher learning competing for even the dredges that everybody should go.
Finally retired myself last year and went to my 50th class reunion. There was one kid from the bottom third who was clearly doing well. Buff, well-dressed and looking younger than most of us. I asked him what he'd been doing.
He told me that while us college kids were slaving away at jobs that paid in the $2 to $4/hour range (guilty), he got a job hanging sheetrock with a construction crew that paid $12. Nobody liked doing the mudding and taping because it was a dirty job. He volunteered because it paid the same and was easier on his back. He learned the business well enough to start his own and things just improved from there.