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> My argument isn't that "professors are paid too much."

Well, okay.

> It's that we have too much higher education.

This seems well-covered in other threads. I'll just say two things:

1. A secondary education from a typical US high school is woefully insufficient for most well-paying jobs in the USA, and this is only likely to become more true over time.

2. Employers are on balance unwilling to invest in educating and training workers.

The argument about what to do is one we should perhaps have, and has been had in other threads, but it is most important to realize the need for something beyond high school.

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You'll be hard pressed to find many of these "we have too much higher education" claimants who don't send their kids to college. rayiner himself is a lawyer.

No, it's always other people's kids who shouldn't go to college. Is that because there is 'too much higher education' or because they know that if everyone has that level of education, it's more difficult for their kid to succeed easily?

How many of these "there's too much higher education" folks can be heard calling Americans 'stupid' for not knowing x-y-z, 'foolish' for not investing in a/b/c or falling into this cultural or financial pitfall or another?

"Stupid people" are the only group in America that it's politically correct to make fun of, yet, rayiner wants people to be less educated. Why might that be?

Could it be that those who already have financial success due to their education -- much of which was bought and paid for by relatives and taxpayers -- don't want to lose their easy success and their cultural punching bags?

What other benefit is a population unexposed to the topics of higher education? That has never been made clear to me.