I heard those call center jobs paid well and are fairly coveted in India. I could be wrong.
that’s because they’re in india.
it already has, to a large degree.
nonsense. having a degree says nothing about creative talent.
right now, if you get a 4 year degree from a decent institution, you’re above a large percentage of the population automatically in terms of resume. if the majority of people possessed it, it wouldn’t be useful as a tool for standing out to employers.
education for the love of education? sure, but it won’t change what I’ve just described.
Not all college degrees are created equal. Specialization in a growing economy is on a gradient system. Every Lab needs Chemists and Technicians. Just because you have a college degree in something, doesn’t mean you’ll be at the bleeding edge of the job market. There is use for a more educated population.
An economics degree from Penn State is worth shit compared to one from UChicago. One of them graduates and becomes an economist, the other graduates and could become a researcher. Still in the same wheelhouse, contributing.
Well I would just once like to get a tech support rep who wasn’t in the bottom 10 percent of his/her english class. [/hate]
according to my friends that live in india, companies are outsourcing to even cheaper places now, and they have been for several years.
A lot of people looking for work don’t want to settle for a job or work that they feel is beneath them. Especially when they can get paid more money on unemployment than they would at said job.
That’s funny, the US without a free education has produced more inventions, research papers than the next leading 6 countries combined.
Some fields already are. Especially computers, nursing, and pharmacy (that I’m aware of). Walgreens, one of the largest Rx chains in the planet has put a freeze of hiring pharmacists and pharmacy technicians for the past 5 years.
And for a large part a college degree is the new HS diploma. Except now it costs 10’s of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars to obtain and students begin their life with tons of debt. Not realizing that maybe they weren’t cut out for college. Colleges now are basically just daycare centers for young adults.
If you measure value purely in ability to generate personal wealth, then yes, everybody having a degree would lower the value.
However, if you measure it in the usefulness of having skills and knowledge that make you a better and more useful person, then no.
You could just be confusing the rarity of degrees with quality of education, and seeing it as a quality vs quantity issue, but that really shouldn’t HAVE to be the case…Obviously, if there was some kind of big push to get everybody a degree within the next 2 years, the quality of education would go down. But I don’t think anybody is advocating the lowering of standards.
I doubt there would be a decline in quality of life, or society would go to shit if everybody was a qualified doctor or engineer or whatever.
Woohoo, TX is cool according to Forbes.
shutup you dirty fucking tree hugging liberal flag burning commie scum, i am too busy attending monster truck rallies to craft a response
dont tase me bro
Huh, I thought Austin would take that spot.
Fixed.
H-Town represent!