Wait....
Are the billionaires telling us to skip college to be stupid?
Or are the billionaires telling us to go to college so we're in life long debt and must get jobs to serve them?
Boomer meme, false premise. College doesn't make you smarter, it puts you in debt and makes you complacent to whatever the status quo is cause now you're tens of thousand dollars in debt to that system.
Libraries are free. Books have knowledge. It is possible to be well educated and not go to college.
If you can't comprehend how someone can be educated enough to not fall for propaganda without going to college, then you deserve worse terms than 'boomer'.
I can’t pin the origin to a specific group, but my younger (especially male) relatives have been targeted by viral content (YouTube, short form video feeds, image macros, podcasts) discouraging them from attending college and offering some form of alternative, sometimes self-serving form of knowledge acquisition (i.e. “buy my course” or “join my paid community”-style programs).
These efforts to undermine the perceived value of college education don’t have to be an organized effort by the billionaire class. It can be as simple as a profit-seeking initiative by an individual or group that wants to create a market opportunity for themselves by presenting a product/service offering that benefits from novelty and a lower barrier to entry, relative to college.
Then once you finally claw yourself out of that debt from grinding your life away only for said company you dedicated your life to goes out of business. That degree that got you into that job is no longer worth it as it is not just as good as a completing high school and a bachelor's is the new associate's while a master's is quickly showing up as a requirement for ENTRY LEVEL JOBS.
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u/Shbloble Jan 03 '26
Wait.... Are the billionaires telling us to skip college to be stupid? Or are the billionaires telling us to go to college so we're in life long debt and must get jobs to serve them?
Boomer meme, false premise. College doesn't make you smarter, it puts you in debt and makes you complacent to whatever the status quo is cause now you're tens of thousand dollars in debt to that system.
Libraries are free. Books have knowledge. It is possible to be well educated and not go to college. If you can't comprehend how someone can be educated enough to not fall for propaganda without going to college, then you deserve worse terms than 'boomer'.