>>90743722>>90743809And, honestly, the cultural preoccupation with a College Degree as the key to success is as much responsible for the explosion of student debt as are the universities, themselves - after all, they're just selling what everyone's buying.
Except that a degree isn't the only pathway to success. There's plenty of good, honest, high-paying work in fields that require a degree; but the Boomers, riding the coattails of the GI Bill-fueled growth of higher education, came to believe that their precious snowflake children, the younger Generation X-ers and older Millennials, were too good for blue collar work. Sorry, soccer moms, but maybe little Jimmy can't do whatever he sets his mind to. Maybe he's not going to grow up to be an astronaut or the President of the United States.
Maybe he's going to be a heavy machinery operator and work construction because that's how you make a living when your only marketable skill is above average spatial awareness and decent hand-eye coordination. And there's not a single thing wrong with that, because if that's what Jimmy is good at, he should do that instead of getting a degree in English Literature that's going to cost a hundred thousand dollars and qualify him to pour coffee at Starbucks.
