• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    You know the Army is in trouble when they offer free college tuition these days and people still aren’t interested.

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      3 months ago

      People have realized that a college education is largely a sham. It was different when everyone believed it was the key to success and wealth.

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          3 months ago

          It an industry to extract profit more than it is about education. That’s why people have student loan debt decades after graduating. It’s not that you can’t get a good education and use it to further a career. It’s that it’s become a machine to create debt and trap people.

          I dated a lawyer who griped that she naively got into law to do good and ended up working for a firm representing a major arms manufacturer because of student debt. Last I heard, she became a public defender, which is awesome, but not a choice a lot of people in that position can or will make.

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        3 months ago

        When has the GOP ever taken the heritage foundation seriously? At best, they just copy parts of the gop to help imply a causality