sweetbthescrivener wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:44 am
I think young men are much smarter than they are given credit for, even than they give themselves credit for, and that they are just doing a simple cost/benefit analysis.
In the sixties you could get a job and raise a family straight out of high school.
In the seventies and eighties there were good jobs out there for college graduates, and even if you didn't use your degree your education was affordable enough that you could graduate with a small amount of debt.
It was a low risk proposition. You could even attend college just 'for the college experience,' and not end up hundreds of thousands of dollars in the hole.
Even before Covid, the college fees have been scandalous for a long time now, and you can pay a heavy price for going to college just because everyone else is doing it.
So why would you pay what a private school used to cost to graduate in debt without any really good jobs waiting for you? (Unless you are in a STEM field, obviously, and most aren't able to do the work.)
And yet you are pressured to go to college your whole life, like it is the only option, and it is like you are being railroaded into a really bad deal.
Now Covid comes along, and, at least in the case of my local university, you are paying the very same fees to sit in your dorm and take classes by Skype, and will become public enemy number one if you attend a party. You don't even get the social benefits of living the college life.
We don't even get to the part where if you are just an everyday heterosexual guy you have been made to feel like a villain since you were a kid.
How does it even make sense to go to college if you are a young dude who isn't good at science?
These young guys are smart.