If most college degrees are useless why do people keep going to school?

submitted by zherka from self.whatever

It's way smarter to go on welfare and leech off the state.

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[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Some go to get pussy.

[–]GuyWhite 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

A major in cuntology.

[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Some girls go to college to get their MRS degree.

[–]Hematomato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The degrees are useless. The shit you learn isn't.

I never took a Queer Feminist Theory class, but I did learn how to use a DAW and how to write pretty good C++ code and how to write four-part harmonies and how to have a threesome.

Did these skills serve me well? I don't know. Eventually we all end up dead and forgotten anyway. But I did some fun stuff along the way at least.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That is an important question. Why be educated if you can earn money without it? The assumption is that education should have instrumental value. Should it?

[–]Alan_Crowe 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is not a repeat purchase. Alfred gets his college degree. Ten years later he regrets, but this isn't about him returning to college for another one, this is about Boris, ten years his junior, making the same double mistake.

Double mistake? The obvious mistake is going to college. The unobvious mistake is not checking how it worked out for people ten years older. Boris could in theory have asked Alfred. But Alfred didn't check with some-one older, and neither did Boris.

Would checking with some-one older even work? College enrollments have been rising. 50 years ago only about 4% of people went to university, and a degree really meant something. Checking with older people tells you about a world now gone.