“For some things, it is — but my engineering degree was my ticket to a 40-plus-year career. I don’t regret getting it.”
“Maybe 40 years ago, it was different. But nowadays, education is commodified. It gets treated like a business where students are customers, and degrees are products. The focus is no longer on education.
People skate by because professors are incentivized to pass them, so the university makes more money. Professors are treated as labor and are overworked and underpaid, while administrators have disgustingly lucrative salaries and bonuses.
You end up with a degree that means nothing because everyone has one, and you still can’t find an entry-level job because everything requires three years of experience. Even if you offered free labor through internships, those jobs still don’t pay salaries or benefits.
After four-plus years earning a degree, people still end up doing wage labor, and they’re stuck with debt where the interest grows faster than they can pay it off.
Education should be a pathway to a better career. But in our system, everyone is a peasant. Even with a doctorate.”
“Yep — at least the ridiculous cost to attend college. It shouldn’t cost more than $100,000 to get a degree. We should want an educated society, and the government should pay for it, not force 18-year-olds to take out a loan they’ll be saddled with damn near the rest of their lives. Who is this benefiting, exactly?”
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