What will become of the economy if colleges fail?
For six strait years, enrollment in universities has been declining. That is due to the far left incrimination and elimination of free thought on campus, all with a heavy price tag that will never be paid off with banks chomping at the bit to lend you the tuition. Colleges have now become the opposite of their intended purpose, which is to expand awareness of humanity.
If you ask anyone this day and age why they want to attend university it’s so they find a good job, that’s it. Most students don’t even know what job they want after graduation just as long as it provides $50K a year and benefits which is the bare minimum to live out the American Dream of home ownership and supporting a family. But with that, you must go through the reeducation camp that is the university system.
People are starting to realize that the colleges are there to brainwash kids and have them stuck in debt for the rest of their lives. Naturally, people want no part of that.
What’s going to happen to all of the university required jobs when no one is attending university? There are a couple of predictions and some good and some bad. We’ll start with the bad.
The employment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a well known threat to mankind’s chances of prosperity. Almost all analytical work can be outsourced to AI, even law practice! As a result of the AI job takeover, we will have hoards of indebted people among us who have already been primed to victimization and having their rights taken away, which is what college is actually teaching kids. Millions will demand welfare and to live in coffin apartments with three other families with their water, food, heating and air conditioning rationed. That’s the bad news.
The good news is that there will be less college indoctrinated people who will peruse knowledge on their own terms. Thoughts will be discovered instead of handed down. A new age of selfhood will occur and a new appreciation for the individual will manifest. Entrepreneurship and small businesses will thrive in an environment of non-conformity because the universities are there for the major corporate, governmental and banking institutions and they won’t have anyone to hire because no one is going to college.
If the major institutions that we are forced to rely on dry up then the economy itself will change, that doesn’t mean fail. An economy of individuals will be more catered to the individual instead of the collective. When an economy is designed for the collective, the collective must conform in order to succeed in the economy. The universities love teaching collectivism.
Also, lower priced private colleges will spring up in order to compete with the universities. They will allow freedom of thought and the growth into adulthood. As opposed to having cry boxes for students to weep their eyes when they’re not feeling safe.
Well, you'll need to cite your source for your 6 straight years of declining enrollment because local enrollment is down but international enrollment is way up. They make more money enrolling international students and out of states than in-state, local students.
Private colleges are in general more expensive than state run colleges, especially if they have prestige. Also, your college needs to be accredited in order for your degree to matter. Employers look at degrees and differentiate them by school's prestige.
Whenever I read about someone saying colleges are scams, people are brainwashed, etc... I'm wondering if they actually know what they're talking about. If you're talking about gender studies or music histories major, then I agree, those are useless. However, my dear misguided poster, if you're talking about hard science major, then you'll find out that a majority of them can very much calculate/manage/handle their financial life just fine. In fact, going into a 4 year degree in a hard science such as engineering (mechanical, electrical, chemical) and compsci will almost always guarantee better job opportunity than having no degree.
The very fact is that engineering students do not have time to waste on social justice like safe space and cry box and they tend to be condescending toward non-engineering students. The people who actually make their money worth of college are these guys. They can think for themselves just fine, so you don't have to worry about being left-leaning brainwashed. In fact, they tend to be mid or right leaning because they actually make more money than no degree people and they want to keep it.
I'll counter your prediction with my own. AI is bad for everyone, more so on the no degree people because they can be replaced by robots controlled by AI. However, it's a long way until AI is capable to operate on their own in a dynamic environment, (controlled environment is decent, dynamic not yet). The people who work with AI to develop/test/modify/discover it will make a lot of money. The people who can tell AI to do only what they need will make a lot of money. Companies will still hire people with degrees because if they can't find workers locally, they will hire people globally with degrees. They're already doing that now. I think the chance that the entire world will eventually abandon colleges is near zero, unless Armageddon.
Just like Steemit, people with money make the rules, and people with no money will flock to them. Corporate will always find someone to hire because they're fucking rich.
Thoughts can be discovered by oneself but to repeat the entire process of molecular model to quantum mechanics to adaptation of electronic circuits last multiple lifetimes. If you're talking about hand waving, philosophy speaking, yea sure. Not science knowledge in the past 100 years, let alone newly discovered ones.
I forgot to add the article to the post about the decline of students at universities. http://hechingerreport.org/university-enrollment-decline-continues-into-sixth-straight-year/
The university system, in general, seems to have an agenda. They want to steer the masses in a certain direction and it's not good. What I laid out was a possible solution to the end of corporate dictatorship. With all due respect, you seem to accept the dictatorship as a normal part of life. The university system is of the system and people are waking up to it by not attending.
You give a credence to what I say by awakening there is an authoritative unit that authorizes the credibility of a school but I assume that you assume it's benign and there for the general good. If what I assume is correct, then I disagree with it. No one hold a monopoly on knowledge.
You're right in saying university system has agenda, leftish agenda and it's true they're steering students toward it. I do accept corporate dictatorship as a normal part of life. However, to me, it will never be a black and white issue. As a person, an individual, I can never hope to change the system. I also accept that is beyond my ability. What I do know is that I can choose to play the game or not and when to quit.
I agree people should be given an option to attend or not attend college. What I don't agree with is the blame rests entirely on the university system and not the students. You get what you put in, regardless what you want to do. If you pick a useless major expecting to make living wages, then maybe don't even bother going to college because that's not going to happen.
I do assume that the accreditation for college is benign and for general good because it only means I'm not getting scammed by some scummy fake institution that preys on student loans. Not to say that the government one wasn't, but these ones are even worst.
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/12/07/502601724/what-former-employees-say-itt-tech-did-to-scam-its-students
I don't think anyone hold a monopoly on knowledge, only monopoly on the accreditation. You can learn everything in college by yourself with free online classes like MIT open course, Coursera, Khan Academy. However, getting employers to accept those classes as proof of your competence will be very difficult.
Your post is not wrong but it's too generalized. University provides a jump in earning wages, and that is true for immigrants. Why is it that Asians and Middle Eastern immigrating to America always have their kids becoming engineers/doctors/scientist when they themselves are working a blue collar job? It's because they pick a worthwhile major, bust their asses in school then work internship in summer (no time for social justice), then get a 6 figures job by the time they graduate. University is just a mean, you decide the end game.
I guess there are multiple ways to solve a problem. Usually in Steemit, what I see is people being "woke" because they see flaws in a system and immediately attempt to persuade others to join in. I see being "woke" is seeing the flaws and having the knowledge to play their game to your advantage.
In regard to university, if you want to play the system, here's one way: Take college classes at local community college when you're still in highschool. Since you're in highschool, you don't have to pay tuition on those classes because k12 is covered by the government. Since they are college classes, you get credits for passing and they stay with you. You save money on introductory math/english/physics classes and general ed classes.