I see good and bad in this post. Definitely, college isn’t for everyone and the mantra should be everyone’s goal is dumb. Trade schools should be in pushed a lot more. Vocational programs in high schools should be funded. And financial literacy classes should be mandatory.College tuition costs are a **** joke.
The issue is guaranteed federal loans. The fact that you can get a loan at 6.8% or whatever to spend 300k to be an art history major enables these institutions to jack prices up. It's predatory IMO.
The answer isn't to print money and forgive these kids mistakes.
But, a lot of it isn't their fault.
These kids should be better educated on the debt they're signing up for and what it means. Hey heres an idea, maybe replace the Russian Revolution curriculum with Financial Literacy.
We also have to get past this middle class cultural norm that everyone should go to college for "the experience". **** that noise.
The part I’m not crazy about is the art history and the like majors, which people like to make fun of. The world can’t be made up of just people who produce a good or service that’s “needed.” That’s a shitty world to live in. Just because a specific dollar value can’t be put to a persons contribution to society doesn’t make it less valuable.