“Master’s in public administration...shortly before the pandemic.” So she got it in 2019 when she was 58. Pretty hard to get a good ROI on a new degree that late in life.
I feel sorry for her, but there’s a bell curve distribution for success in life and earnings. Sounds like Cathy is at the left end of the bell curve.
Not everybody gets to grab the brass ring in life.
” I feel sorry for her, but there’s a bell curve distribution for success in life and earnings. Sounds like Cathy is at the left end of the bell curve.
Not everybody gets to grab the brass ring in life.”
The problem with this thinking is the idea that today one can’t even aspire to the middle class life of the the 1950’s or 1960’s blue collar guy - unless you are “above average” for White collar advanced degree.
Approx 12 percent of the. population of the USA has advanced degrees. And you are saying only the top half of them get as good or better than the blue collar guy of the 1950’s ?
What kind of “conservatism” do you think you are going to get with 90+ percent of the population facing less than that.
Who is going to be invested in “conserving” a system like that ?