Civil Unrest Maxxing. Short video.

[Solvedit]

Two-minute video.

The creator seems to think the Taiping Rebellion was caused by this issue and we are definitely facing it today in the US and Western Europe.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZfJ_hX1T9uc

[David64]

Two-minute video.

The creator seems to think the Taiping Rebellion was caused by this issue and we are definitely facing it today in the US and Western Europe.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZfJ_hX1T9uc

This re-enforces what I've been saying for years. College is not for everyone and many jobs that require a degree can be done by a high school graduate. People are going for "educations" that there is no real market for.

If the trend keeps up, we'll have 47,000 Gender Studies Majors and 3 plumbers.

[BeyondKnowledge]

Two-minute video.

The creator seems to think the Taiping Rebellion was caused by this issue and we are definitely facing it today in the US and Western Europe.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZfJ_hX1T9uc

Your video has some good points. I think it has more to do with the way college education is financed. The colleges convinced more people to go onto debt for something there was no real market for. This was caused by easy to get student loans. Also, the grading standards were lowered for increased profits by having more students get a college degree. 

When anyone can get a degree, what value is that degree?

Academia, we need to understand the definition. It is a persuit of leasure learning by the elete and the intelligent. It was never for the masses. That was what it was created for.  A hobby for those that did not work. 

And now they are pushing machines to do the work. Both physical and buracratic work. Robot workers are just around the corner according to some and paperwork jobs are already disappearing. 

This over population of the educated is only a small part of societal change going on now and for the near future. It is indeed a brave new world we are blindly running eagerly into. 

Beyond here there be dragons. Some will eat you.

[Solvedit]

Your video has some good points. I think it has more to do with the way college education is financed. The colleges convinced more people to go onto debt for something there was no real market for. This was caused by easy to get student loans. Also, the grading standards were lowered for increased profits by having more students get a college degree. 

It's mainly the academic standards.  The children of people with money are potentially also able, but not necessarily so, and there might be people among the poor who could succeed in an academically rigorous environment. 

Making money easily available for college would not by itself cause overproduction if the standards were kept high, but the gatekeepers are the colleges themselves and the money may be corrupting them.

[BeyondKnowledge]

It's mainly the academic standards.  The children of people with money are potentially also able, but not necessarily so, and there might be people among the poor who could succeed in an academically rigorous environment. 

Making money easily available for college would not by itself cause overproduction if the standards were kept high, but the gatekeepers are the colleges themselves and the money may be corrupting them.

Ah yes, the money has corrupted the colleges to the point that they actually want as many people to get as many classes and degrees as possible. It does not  matter what they are in or if they actually have marketable potential for future loan repayment. 

Colleges have become dependant on the student loans so much that they have lowered all admissions standards to get more students with them. 

And yes, there should be a way where any qualified individual no matter what their financial adility would be able to get a higher education without the future financial burden.  But again, the colleges have just lowered their admission standards to get more money by having more student loans. 

When I went to college many years ago locally, there were many trade programs available for study. They have all been eliminated except for medical related ones. No welding, no electricity, no electronics, no robotics, no automotive classes at all. They were all available when I was there. From what I understand, the highschool and middle schools have also eliminated their shop classes, at least where I live. 

The trades programs have lost favor even though they often end up leading to a well paying future job than a lot of college degrees lead to. 

We are rapidly approaching an event horizon of having too many overeducated individuals that don't know how to do anything useful. And it was done by the current education system.

[Maxmars]

I think our (globally speaking) paradigms were offset by specious planning ideals.

We can see the the Prussian educational model was 'crafted' by educators specifically to encourage conformity and cooperation with processes... 

It worked splendidly for a mass adoption of new technologies...

They kept it pretty much everywhere... from then on.

Problem is, "that world" was not "this world."

A fact which you can never tell professional model-makers... that their foundation is of clay.

They expected a world where every human was productive to their ends, and all people, always remember the rules, and do as they are instructed to be superiors.  (Which makes for great managerial ease.)

Look around and see practically illiterate children, dreaming of living 'the life' of media glamour... juxtaposed with activist poison, and make-believe "news reporting."

This world appears to have demanded cynics to exist... the irony is comical about the world the media describes, and the reality they pretend it is.

Also... people produce this to agitate a sentiment...

and targeting it as 'elite only' is very myopic.

Groups do it all the time, even the good  ones...  they just keep screwing things up because eventually they come to the belief that they 'can't be wrong,' or maybe they're playing a long game with special financial preparations to fatten their coffers.... who knows?  

It's the elites - possibly not all of them - definitely... but it is also definitely not ONLY the elites who do this... people are willing to "play along."

[Solvedit]

Elite overproduction can lead to human trafficking.   The people who want to be big shots can probably often be in tacit cooperation with the mafia.  It gets talented contenders out of their way.

[SteamyAmerican]

This re-enforces what I've been saying for years. College is not for everyone and many jobs that require a degree can be done by a high school graduate. People are going for "educations" that there is no real market for.

If the trend keeps up, we'll have 47,000 Gender Studies Majors and 3 plumbers.

Yeah maybe.

But how’re we gonna continue to keep young adults in debt for the first couple decades of their lives?

Seems to me this is the ulterior motive.

I mean to be fair, I always heard “go to college. Get a good job.” Now those with Masters degrees are being turned down for entry level at Lowe’s Home Depot, Starbucks, etc.

What happens when there aren’t “good jobs” for college graduates. Or jobs at all for that matter?

ETA: when high schools don’t teach taxes, how to balance a budget, or anything “useful” for adulthood outside of introductions to vocations, what then is their purpose of education anymore?

Shoot. Kids can’t read, write, nor ‘rithmetic. So what good is college then?

[KTemplar]

Steamy American

Good points.  College (unless you’re going for medical seems like a money laundering scheme.

I know of younger adults in my town with Engineering degrees who begged people they knew to get them into Home Depot (only getting one day a week!

Gen Z seems to have already checked out (and they live in their phones and wear ear pieces and talk to their friends or listen to podcasts their whole shift.  I can’t tell you how many times I have to wave my hands in front of them to get their attention.  I can’t stand it.

I also have been hearing people are moving to other countries now to try to avoid paying their college loans (don’t know how that works).  

We need to bring jobs home PERIOD!  If we think the younger generations are going to keep SSI propped up, we’re screwed!

I voted for no wars, better economy and more jobs and got JACK SHIT of what I voted for.    Damn you greedy a$$ corporate America!

[Solvedit]

I know of younger adults in my town with Engineering degrees who begged people they knew to get them into Home Depot (only getting one day a week!

Why is it that our society seems more resistant to moving those people around than importing millions of new workers by any means necessary?  

I don't know the answer.  Can it be the workers themselves weren't willing to move because they thought they were going to get degrees and there would be a job waiting for them?  Can it be the places with jobs would rather import people without the expectation of a prestigious job?