Blame the colleges. Prices have gone up twice the rate of inflation plus some. Why is there no discussion on that?
Good point.
And if this nation followed my proposal for UNIVERSAL SECONDARY OR TRADE EDUCATION, the price of education would certainly rise still faster, too.
What would really be happening (or at least another way to look at what it would do) is this:
The Aggregate amount of investment we'd be making into educating our next generation would be going up faster than for all other investments we make.
And THAT would be a good thing in my (never humble) opinion.
OK...so we overhaul the education system and make it simple for everyone to get a college degree.
SO now we will have 5 college degree unemployed vying for 2 college degree jobs....and 1 non degree person vying for 3 non degree jobs.
And ther end result? College degreed people doing non degreed jobs.....at the cost of the tax payer.
You know...there are many social programs that seem "honorable" on paper....but you must think about the long term ramifications.
Jar,
You make a good point.
Yes I do NOT think that education will solve every one of society's ills.
Formost among those ills, (as it regards this issue, at least) is this:
When are we going to ADMIT that technology is making an every increasing amount of people REDUNDANT and basically economically UNEMPLOYABLE?
Bottom line?
NOT 1% of the human population will be able to educate themselves faster than techology will replace HUMAN LABOR with technology.
We are just now beginning to see the effects of this disrupting our ecponomi9c system.
But the speed at which this is happening is advancing so rapidly that it is catching us unaware and unable to even IMAGINE how we solve this problem.
Basically until we change the social cntract (one that is based on SCARCITY) to a social contract (based on the PLENTY that technology is creating for us) we (meaning all of mankind) are going to continue down the road to a THIRD WORLD ECONOMY.
Why?
Because in a society where technology rapidly replaces workers?
ONLY CAPITAL wins.
Workers, and more and more worker, find themselves no longer employable.
And no amount of educating our children is going solve THAT problem.
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