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Originally Posted by crucifissio
I actually drive a ladies c3 citroen it has a perfume dispenser, my mom and sister gave it to me as a gift 
look the documentary makes a fair argument, that US diplomas are not worth the effort and money to some americans...they argue that college costs 100.000$+ just in tuition fees not taking in to account living expenses ect, and that the loan shark interest rates blast it to 200.000K in no time...
now I agree that SOME people get great jobs right away...lets say 50% of all college graduates get that fancy 100K/year job and can pay off their education, and its definitely worth it ect
but for the rest, the ones who will work normal jobs, or most likely will not find any job other than wallmart, who have to pay off the loan shark debt for like a decade, who have to buy a house in the worlds biggest housing bubble, who have to pay US healthcare ect its pure debt slavery
europeans come to the USA because american college is easy as fuck...not because intelligence is somehow confined within the boundaries of over priced over hyped party colleges...the CNN documentary claims that in state colleges the average time a student spends studying is one hour...dude you can not finish even serbian middle school with just one hour of study
oh and the 1trillion $ combined student debt is kinda detrimental to your arguments |
The problem isn't the cost of college, but being sold college as a necessary device for success. A friend of mine's daughter graduated high school last year. About halfway through her senior year she signed up to go into the Air Force. Even with that done, she had a class that forced her to apply to two colleges as part of its curriculum.
In recent years kids are being told that the only way to get a good job is to go to college and some of them rack up a huge amount of debt for a degree that will not really help them land a good job right out of college.
Another thing we have to take into consideration is that the economy sucked (and still isn't great). So a lot of kids got out of high school and went to college because they thought they likely couldn't get a good job right out of high school. They hoped the economy would improve while they were in school. Now we have a huge influx of college graduates, many of which have semi-useless degrees, and they are flooding the market and still unable to find those good jobs.
If a person wants to study something that requires a degree or they just want a degree in general, there are plenty of ways to get the degree without getting much debt if they are willing to do the research and take the steps needed to get it done.