[ SECRET POST #5571 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5571 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The fact that a college degree IS often a necessary stepping stone to... hell, not even success, SOME kind of passable career unless you're willing to wreck your body in the trades (but this isn't about that) makes the whole situation with college education in the US even MORE galling, imo. I get that this is a bit and Mulaney doesn't go hard on late stage capitalism, but the price of a degree, its lack of useful application, and the existence of people who can't afford to go to college at all, they're all part of the same problem, OP.

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its lack of useful application

I mean, maybe if you got a generic humanities degree, but most jobs that will actually pay you a good salary require the degrees they do for a reason - because the knowledge and experience that you get from it are crucial to the job.

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It is true that, for undergraduate degrees which directly qualify you for a lucrative career path, the knowledge and experience that you get from those degrees are crucial for the job. But those degrees are the exception, not the rule. Most undergraduate degrees don't specifically qualify you for any particular job (beyond the general fact of having a college degree). A business major, a history major, an English major, a political science major, a communications major, and a psychology (undergraduate) major will be more or less equally qualified for the same jobs. And a lot of other career paths will require further training to qualify you for a job beyond the undergraduate degree.

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A business major, a history major, an English major, a political science major, a communications major, and a psychology (undergraduate) major will be more or less equally qualified for the same jobs.

... those are kind of the definition of "generic humanities degrees"

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If you believe the only purpose of a university is to turn out technically trained workers to meet the demand of the market, and not to produce an overall more educated, critically capable, socially aware populace, then sure. I personally believe there is room for both in higher education BUT the problem that’s specific to the US is that a college education is expensive no matter what you plan to do with it. I think that’s actually what Mulaney was getting at too: that he had to pay a lot of money to be told to read Austen. He chose to do that degree so it couldn’t have been the reading Austen part he had an issue with. It was the cost. That kind of education should be free or close to free, as it is in many other developed countries.

Also, specifically to address your claim that the right degrees always adequately prepare you for lucrative jobs, that is quite inaccurate at the undergraduate level and even becoming an antiquated notion beyond college. Higher education is currently having a hard time keeping up with the technically advanced reality of the workplace, so reskilling and upskilling both become increasingly necessary to stay competitive in the fields with the highest compensations.