August 11th, 2010
robot-heart-politics: abbyjean: Virtually every single member of congress, every senator, every Capitol Hill staffer, every White House advisor, every Fed governor, and every major political reporter is a college graduate. What’s more, we have a large amount of social segregation in the United States—college graduates tend to socialize with each other. And among college graduates, there simply isn’t an economic crisis in the United States. This is not the best of times, but it’s perfectly rational in gradland to be balancing concern about the labor market situation with dozens of other concerns. (via Yglesias) Our society is in a very sad state when the only way to not be poor for the rest of your life is to spend thousands of dollars on a college education simply for the sake of a degree to get a job and then spend the first half of our working life paying off those bills, if we are even able to get loans in the first place or if the poverty during youth hasn’t prevented one from getting enough of a primary and secondary education to get into a post-secondary educational institution. The idea of “you have to spend money to make money” goes way overboard just to get an entry level job.

robot-heart-politics:

abbyjean:

Virtually every single member of congress, every senator, every Capitol Hill staffer, every White House advisor, every Fed governor, and every major political reporter is a college graduate. What’s more, we have a large amount of social segregation in the United States—college graduates tend to socialize with each other. And among college graduates, there simply isn’t an economic crisis in the United States. This is not the best of times, but it’s perfectly rational in gradland to be balancing concern about the labor market situation with dozens of other concerns. (via Yglesias)

Our society is in a very sad state when the only way to not be poor for the rest of your life is to spend thousands of dollars on a college education simply for the sake of a degree to get a job and then spend the first half of our working life paying off those bills, if we are even able to get loans in the first place or if the poverty during youth hasn’t prevented one from getting enough of a primary and secondary education to get into a post-secondary educational institution. The idea of “you have to spend money to make money” goes way overboard just to get an entry level job.

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