[exdsq]

> Its fine if to occasionally pay for some random irrelevant degree, because the cost of uneducated and unproductive population is much higher.

Is it? Imagine if everyone got a 4-year degree - you’d see a dip in productivity (due to less working years per adult), a dip in spending (due to debts), and little productivity gains due to a lack of degree-related work in general.

[imtringued]

Just think of all the trades. Construction is a booming industry with a shortage of workers. If you forced plumbers to get a humanities degree they would be worse off.

[ClumsyPilot]

What do you mean "forced"? Noone is snatching men off construction sites to chain them to the desk in a classroom of lesbian dance theory

[exdsq]

If the status quo is that you should go then parental pressure could force some people to go. I know I wanted to finish academia long before I could...