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A college degree is no longer worth the investment for most people
Rising costs and debt vs career opportunities and earning potential.
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1 day ago
Colleges have become businesses focused on amenities and administration. Tuition goes to fancy dorms and layers of management, not education.
1 day ago
Average student debt is like $30k and growing. Average starting salary for grads hasn't kept pace. The math just doesn't work out anymore for most fields.
52 minutes ago
Totally agree. It's tricky when the numbers just don't add up like they used to.
1 day ago
I know so many people with degrees working retail jobs. They're exactly where they'd be without the degree except now they have debt.
1 day ago
This might be true in some cases but you can't generalize it like that.
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1 day ago
The student debt crisis is real but the solution is fixing costs, not telling people education is worthless. We should make college affordable, not give up on it.
1 day ago
For many careers - medicine, law, engineering, research - you literally cannot enter the field without advanced degrees. College isn't optional for everyone.
1 day ago
The fact that this is even debatable shows how disconnected some people are from reality.
1 day ago
Education isn't just about job training. Learning to think critically, exposure to different ideas, becoming a more informed citizen - that has value beyond salary.
1 day ago
That sounds nice in theory but it doesn't hold up when you look at what actually happens.