Same problem here in Germany. "College for all" has always contained a potentially false promise.

I still don’t get why Joanne’s act was designed to do and why it is still upheld if it seems so counterproductive to the U.S. interests?

This has also really screwed the relatively few people who actually want to become academics. In my field, as well as a lot of others, a PhD is training to do research and be a professor, but there are like an order of magnitude more people getting PhDs than there are actual positions to fill.

Why a physics degree and a degree in communications both uniformly (along with many other degrees) require precisely 4 years of education is question not enough asked…

The only solution is to end the stigma around blue collar jobs and make trade school glamorous. Trade schools can also be a potential place to forge life long friendships, find a partner and have fun. The notion that trade schools can be equally classy and fulfilling just like college needs to be spread.

god im so glad im not a retard who went to college for a white collar job and started working NDE

There is no such thing as friends in international relations. It's trading partners..not as simple as you put it.

Degrees are not required and yet you will not get hired often without one and you will not get promoted without one you can have years of experience and still get passed up without a college degree just get an associates degree at a free 2 year tuition community college and then go from there get some experience and or continue education all fields require different qualifications and carpentry doesn’t pay what the internet says it does

N Korea is obviously a personality cult national now trump is a cult leader. I don’t think Kim or trump is in control of their respective cults (or themselves). Who is contributing the technology that creates and maintains these cults? Typically one would say China, Russia, the US or even Japan. But could it be the tech oligarchs? Melded with rouge intelligence agencies? Like FBI director Muller described in his Iron Triangle speech ? Until he issues surrounding technology, cults and mind control are seriously discussed, openly, we all will continue to fall victim to the cults being generated and the violence and instability they bring.

Liberal Studies. But Liberal Factories are not hiring last 40 years. Had to go to social services to counsel losers like me. Dammm

I recognized all this in high school, my parents forced me to go anyway when i had no desire to. I failed out, and now at 28 have decided I want to go back for myself, after years of self education. However, with tens of thousands of dollars of debt, no real hope.

Bro cockroach burger ads some wack Britsish crap is this. glad I clicked on this channel. Lol

China has already started dumping cars to emerging markets such as South East Asia. Around 6 or 7 Chinese manufacturers have popped up in the past two years. EV and ICE.

This chart fully explains one previous point to a comment I made earlier, college is not for everyone. One of the other issues about talking everyone into going to college is, that your most productive learning age for an occupation is in your teens and twenties, by the time you're 30, if you haven't found an occupation, then your odds of finding something meaningful drops.

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I was lucky enough to be enrolled in the experimental program at the time while in high school, the vocational program was a program that started in your freshman year, you studied the basic reading, writing, math and history for half the day, then studied different different occupations the other half, at the end of each semester you would test, and from those tests they could see what you tested best at and what your interests were, this went on through your sophomore year where now you had a better idea at what your capabilities were, of most of my class, most went on to do what they learned and most have become successful at their jobs and lives, some took trades, some went to college, point is, most learned who they were and what they were good at, that program ended in the 90's, when the schools took the approach that everyone has to go to college, and what we see now is those that go to college and have huge college debt, and yes alot succeed, but for those who aren't college material, they either start college and fail and end up with college debt that they can't pay back, or you end up with kids graduating high school with no direction in life.

I got 2 college degrees, student loan repayment takes 35% of my monthly wage. I only earn $2 an hour more than an Amazon driver and 50 cents hour less than a California minimum wage worker. I cannot afford to move out my parents' home and I cannot see myself affording to buy a house and raise kids. Corporate cause this inflation and student loan with heavy interest are keeping me poor. I'm middle class American, but living in poverty without government assistance, because I'm not poor enough.

Trade school first and online classes later is a much smarter idea. If you’re an electrician or a barber, it’s possible to save enough money to get a decent education after a few years. But regardless if you have a skill, nobody can take that away and you don’t have to prove much more than being able to do the job. No need for a resume when you can simply prove what you can do in real time. “Hello sir you’re hiring carpenters? I brought my tools, let me show you what I can do…give me 1 hour and 3 old 2x4s.”

Ran out of toilet paper? They should learn how to wash their ass. That's a non issue

"When everyone has a degree, noone does."

China starting a trade war? America has been doing that all by themselves

I find it hilarious how Hollywood demonise the parent that didn't want their kids to go to college and instead wanted them to inherit the family business. When in fact the real demon was the one who told their kids to go to college and sold off their profitable blue collar bussiness so they can go to retire in Florida.

Women are not spose to working.

An elevator instaler takes much much more than a highschool education my god

An ICBM travels at Mach 15. A high powered rifle bullet travels at Mach 3. So an ICBM travels five times faster than a high powered rifle bullet. We can shoot down some of these incoming missiles, but not enough to prevent catastrophic damage and loss of life. It might be easier and cheaper to negotiate treaties with other nuclear powers.

I'm not sure if westerners understands how important/difficult job it is to be a housewife

Good degrees, like engineering allows you to make money while in school. You could make 30k just over the summer.

the biggest problem. Cost. There is no downside to having an educated population. If it was free it'd be objectively better for society whether or not you got a job with that degree. Smarter population means better ppl in politics which means better laws.

Showing stock footage of BOH restaurant employees probably shouldn't be on the screen when you talk about "well paid satisfied skilled workers". Most BOH restaurant employees are far from well paid.

What seems to be missing is this video is the fact that college and college admissions have been dumbed down. You used to need probably an above average IQ to get into college and then graduate. Now they hand it out like candy. Of course that will deflate the value of a college degree. Recently some Ivy league schools began requiring standardized testing for admission again. Can you believe they had dropped it? That was to be "inclusive". But employers realized that they were getting garbage with a Harvard label on it. This country needs to be a meritocracy again. We are all equal in the eyes of the law but we are certainly not all created equal. That's a twisted fantasy. Now, this bloated college scene we see is resulting in people, including illegal aliens, from South America and elsewhere filling the trade jobs. The maker of this video mentioned that a value of college that still remains is learning and research. I would disagree with that. College now includes brain washing and censorship. Research is controlled by the donors which often are large corporations. Look this country is going down and its going down hard. The problem is there is just too much evil in the human population and it is overwhelming any good that might exist. I really do fear the end is coming for everyone.

I was a trade school auto mechanic, for 10 years. Which lead me to Industrial maintenance, Then Machinist. tool sharpener, Then to a really good railroad welder/ carman job. Each job allowed me to better myself. Starting your career, you must invest in yourself. The trade`s are a great way to do this, but its not overnight. Learn from every job, as you will become an in demand worker.

This is why I operate my own small lottery business on the side while while playing on my own number selections and those of my clients. You'd be surprised how much wealth of information and data is sitting up there in peoples brain waiting to be analyzed for the next big lottery prize. *Note: "The human body uses up to 100w of power (depending upon growth development) while the brain uses about 20% of this body energy. The thoughts of every adult is worth ¢0.20 a watt. A single thought of an average adult outputs 0.02 kilowatts. That’s 20kWh of power! 20 (w) x ¢0.20= $4.00 (USD). This price point reflects the production costs or monetary value of every single thought in the brain. The average human thinks 69,984 thoughts per day (49 TPM)! 69,984 x $4.00=$279,936 (USD). No matter what thoughts we have negative or positive every single thought could be worth up to $4.00” -Philip Traum, German Mystic

I have the feeling that being so narrow-sighted in the US while ignoring how college education works in the rest of the Western World makes it impossible for the video to understand the actual problem of college in the US.

Excuse me, you say who started the trade war?

A most interesting topic, to someone who has been chronically underemployed for decades! Sometimes things are just slow and that's that. Sometimes?? Right now the same newspaper can tell you that jobs are being created and we "just can't get no good help", AND that there are millions of unemployed and underemployed and involuntarily retired people... half of persons with degrees are underemployed, average retirement age is 62, people THINK they're going to work 'till 67! (that's me. I meet people like this all the time, who could be working, and have a lifetime's experience and the will, and nobody will look at them). What else doesn't make sense? Oh, BIG ONE: We all think more people should go to trade school and not university. Fine. We don't have so many trade schools, and don't seem to be making big investments in that sector here in FL. In my view that system is not really going anywhere. SO NATURALLY we all just agree that it is! So now I see articles about how today's clever youth are increasingly choosing STEM education, community colleges and trade schools. I don't see how this can be! I have often said that anything you read about technical education and technical work is going to be WRONG. Not necessarily just a lie, but news from another world almost. The world where bosses and university administrators live. Worse yet, journalists seem to repeat what the others say, so now a piece of bad information starts circulating and presently people are repeating it in general conversation.... Now it's something "everyone knows", which is ALWAYS wrong! I am not sure that our national thinking ABOUT technical workers is right, America seems to just despise workers, and wants to treat them as negligible and interchangeable and disposable. Don't you think so? I don't think as a nation we can believe or CARE that there is stuff to know, stuff to learn.... if you actually LOOK at new trade programs (I have been an instructor in some, and am constantly designing new "labs" for this) a lot of them are incredibly superficial and brief, "certificates", which makes me want to scream. People want to learn to weld in a single MORNING, and everyone thinks this is a good idea, or even AN idea? It's really pervasive. Where am I going with this? NOWHERE, obviously. Just around and around.

Weitd thing about Americans is that even though they went to college, they could not answer simple math questions or geography or history questions.

I always felt college got an automatic, artificial boost from the nature of it's customers. The path is pushed on kids who seem the most intellectual and promising. The smarter the kid, the more the pressure to go. By it's nature, college is an acceptable path only to those who voluntarily hit the books and do extra exams instead of doing the minimum. With a group like that, of course they're going to earn more, and keep the "higher income" stats alive, even when you disregard doctors and engineers who definitely needed a degree. The other group (high school grads) is going to have income stats dragged down by people who are incarcerated, surf bums, housewives, and unemployed people living in basements just playing video games.

When I attended college in the 90s, you had to go up to Calculus to get a 4 yr business degree. Now, I meet people with a 4 yr business degree who faint if they had to solve pre-algebra problems. I wonder how they did made it. Online colleges with cheat sheets?

What is a "satisfying ending"?

Who has started the most wars last 50 years? China?

6:55 notice how Republicans were more likely to value education for their children. A lot of politicians really want you to forget how much most Republicans care about quality education. It's sorta scary how the Republican position on college is currently more progressive (trade school should be encouraged, but college is great, as long as it's not full of classes where bigotry is normalized- in contrast, Democrats want you to think that smart people go to college and that trade school is for right wing bigots.

As someone in their late 20s only having began working and still trying to pursue more education for my certification, it’s sometimes hard to recognize how much time/money was spent, but then I have to cut myself some slack because someone who comes from near poverty family living off food stamps having a non stable household and severe social anxiety/agoraphobia I can say I got to experience and learn about myself because of college, granted it was my local university but it is also lucky that I got to live abroad for several years and work there, have my own place/live with roommates, have friends from all over the world and people who care for me in other ways. Now that I am working/starting in my dream jobs, albeit not the best paid but still better than average I’m building my resume. I have come to realize college is not for all and although it seems harsh Europe seems better at handling the college education situation than us here. I would suggest to my students who are nearly 20 years younger than me to learn another language and go to school outside of the U.S or just travel and learn in these other places, leave or come back doing that middle skills jobs, cause we need it.

"College is the last sanctuary from market forces, where research and learning is encouraged for its own sake" That's the funniest joke I've heard on youtube in years.

As someone currently suffering through college, yes...

There’s no problem with affordable products with good quality. The problem is the greedy Wall Street no longer has the mighty power to earn crazy profits so it started a propaganda campaign to smear China.

I lost my job and in my 50s. I’m not learning a trade now. I’m not in perfect health and have a heart condition. So middle skill work is out for me.

Here's an idea. Only go to college that promises you a full refund if you meet the following criteria: you can't find a job in the field you majored in at the pay you were told you'd make and you maintain a certain GPA average. If all colleges did this, there would be VERY few left after a year or so. Most would certainly go bankrupt. Because college is a scam. Most of working America is a scam.

I was never a PhD working at Starbucks. However I was an MS working at McDonald's for 18 months (2000 to 2002) :) I have a PhD in biochemistry but having a good job was only a very recent development.

‘there has never been a peaceful handover of power’ dude they were democratically elected. Stalin went on to say multiple times pleading to not vote for him because he didnt want to step up again.

It is hard to tell any country not to manufacture.