>>11946926Up until recently having a degree greatly improved your chances of getting a good job, also it looked good, so getting a degree became sort of a moral imperative rather than a mean to an end.
This resulted in a couple of things:
1- because of the laws of supply and demand the world got flooded with professionals. Combine that with much less demand for them and quick obsolescence of a lot of knowledge.
2-because people gave too much prestige to the idea of college itself, the college's as an institution took advantage of this and realized their product (degrees) had the same value wether it resulted in jobs or not so most do the bare minimum to avoid lawsuits after all who can claim the education level is good or not? You guessed it, other professionals.
So basically having a degree that is probably shit in which you learned very little in a world with an abundance of professionals and little demand for them Mena's nothing.
If you don't have a skill or accomplishment that sounds good without clarifying you have a degree(I designed a part for a rocket,I wrote software that got used at Google,I helped diagnose a hard medical case, I won an architectural competition, I can design suspension bridges, etc) then you're just a worthless person who paid a lot to read a few books.
