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by erdbeerkuchen 3296 days ago
If someone wants to take up a certain trade, why is it stupid to teach him the necessary skills for that trade? It seems much less wasteful to me than a system in which everyone goes to college for four years and racks up a bunch of debt for an education that is ultimately of little value to most.
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It's nonsense to force them into getting a poor government education just so that they are allowed to perform a trade that doesn't even require it.

What sense, for instance, does it make to go to school for three years and get paid poorly just to work as a salesperson?