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This is a strawman tangent, income inequality is not due to the deficit of jobs for BA degrees
This is a strawman tangent, income inequality is not due to the deficit of jobs for BA degrees
I also don't think that article reflects what you are saying. It is talking about how the smart college kids these days are unimaginative donks who default into the safe paths towards upper middle class security and not entrepreneurship. You seem to be beefing with the rudderless kids with no direction who go to college for no other reason than to accumulate debt, not develop any skills, and in large numbers dropout. Two different groups.
What are the useful degrees?
How can you use a metric like unemployment to make your point when all the evidence shows that college graduates with "useless degrees" are more likely to be employed than people without a college degree?
I guess I try to assume you have common sense in your arguments. That's the misunderstanding.
#scienceHow many identity studies grads have you hired? For what positions?
You didn't answer the questions.
Your premise runs contrary to facts that show the most useless college degree beats not going to college. The OWGs want college graduates.
You say you are pro-entrepreneurship but your argument is about who OWGs will hire.
And either way, why not wonder about who non-OWGs will hire?
#science
So just like I said, you are all about the first four paths described in that link.
From your link. It directly contradicts your points. You favor a few majors that directly lead to predefined higher paying paths. The author clearly doesn't.
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There are currently six prominent paths for achievement-minded recent college graduates: financial services, management consulting, law school (still), med school, and grad school/academia. The sixth is Teach for America, which continues to draw approximately 5,000 graduates (and 50,000 applicants) a year from universities across the country.
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Another byproduct of the six paths is that we have less diversity of thought. Academics kind of think a certain way. So do lawyers. And bankers. And consultants. And doctors. Having most of our top students being trained in the same handful of ways might be good in some ways—we might break fewer things. But it might make us less likely to build new things too.
Where our talent is going shapes our economy and society.
Imagine a new path—one that led graduates to work with entrepreneurs in small growth companies in Detroit, New Orleans, Providence, Baltimore, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Philadelphia and other cities around the country. They’d help those companies expand and thrive, creating more jobs and opportunities. They’d certainly think differently as a result of their experience. And perhaps they’d be in position to start or lead a company themselves in the coming years.
We don’t need six paths. We need 600 or 6,000. The sooner we open things up for our young people to determine their own paths, the better off we’ll be.
interesting charts/figures that could go anywhere but i'm choosing this thread
not in a purdy picture like that one but http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0233.pdf