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6. It's taking hold

I'm a regular at a bar for happy hour that is blue collar. None of these people think sending your kids to college is worth it.

When I grew up, that was why my dad worked at the GM, so he could send us to private school that would increase our chances at getting into and succeeding at college. That was his whole work ethic, to give us a better life by having more opportunities than he did.

Now I see these blue collar people and talk to them, it's all, "College is pretty useless now." "You can't get a job with a degree anymore." "AI will be taking all the white collar jobs anyway." It's an epidemic of this type of thought. College grads are unemployed at roughly half the rate of high school grads. College grads will make $40K more a year on average (median). That is getting lost. And I see it online everywhere right now, people putting down a college education and saying it's just not worth it.

We need more educated workers, we need more degreed workers. It drives our economy forward. AI isn't changing that, in fact there's evidence it will amplify it.