SnowyMacie
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Couple of problems with this. If its "free" it means the govt is paying for it and if you think high school gpa and sat requirements are bad now go look at what the European kids have to go through to avoid being a janitor.
Second if everyone and their mom had access to and graduated from college the degrees would not be worth the paper they were printed on, barriers to entry create low supply making the people that do overcome the barriers that much more valuable in society. As the population explodes out of control I am kind of glad there is still a high barrier to entry mechanism that you can pull yourself away from the teaming masses. I DONT want everyone and their mom competing for the same jobs as me because that brings everyone down to poverty. Why would an employer pay someone a lot of money if a huge number of people can do the job.
Welcome to the world of being a millennial, where your dreams are made up and your degree doesn't matter. The number of people in my generation with college degrees unemployed or underemployed is astronomically high, If anything our requirements for getting into college are too lose, we have too many college students nowadays as it is. I've heard people call the modern Bachelor's degree the new HS Diploma, and getting a Master's degree as the new Bachelor's. The world you describe is exactly what it's like as a new entry to the job market. On top that, college tuition is basically undergoing hyperinflation, and so no one can afford to pay for their education which has turned out to be pointless. STEM fields, apparently the only "worthwhile" degree anymore, aren't for everyone...I could barely pass trigonometry, even with my engineer father helping me. Even then, your chances of getting a job in your field after graduation even an "entry level" position, especially with no experience. You really are competing against the masses for nearly every job out there. I never really bought into capitalism, but actually participating in it like this is slowly causing me to despise it.
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