Demographics & Economics

[spacemonkey]

[Kane]

Yep, short term profiteering.

[spacemonkey]

The world is always going to remain finite, no matter how big we think our immagination is. The exploding human population only aggrivates the situation.

[Kane]

[exploited]

There is a place in town called Johnny's, and it's been under the same ownership for decades... Breakfast is $4.99 and comes with four bacon slices, two sausages, two eggs, toast and hash brown's. I despair the day they sell out or raise prices. So cheap and delicious, and good breakfast places are so hard to find...

[Kane]

I mean shit, I easily go through $200 a month in food. I eat a lot...

[PoS]

Well if you didnt have to pay income tax, would you be able to take care of your loans and enjoy yourself?

[Winchester]

[fstarcstar]

The hardest part currently is there are thousands of students coming out with degrees and debt that "acquired skills" needed for the job market and ended up getting a job they had skills in prior. We have saturated our market entirely to which if you don't have some sort of degree your essentially worthless, and I think that's the wrong way to go.

For myself, I just graduated two weeks ago with my Bachelors in Kinesiology and I have passed all of my state exams to get certified to teach in the State of Texas. Without parental or family support and after attending 2 colleges (first was private, big mistake) and a community college for basics, I have ended up just shy of 50k in debt. This, just for a bachelors in which some of the courses are bullshit English and history. I'm not a lawyer and I'm not going into medical school, but my debtload for a simple bachelors will plague me for maybe 10+ years assuming I don't land a decent paying job. And half of the things they "taught me" were things I picked up on my own in the job market from always having a part or full time position throughout the years.

I really, honestly believe we are overqualifying our students with requiring a degree with a high price tag of future debt to supply them with a market of jobs that barel require those skills or pay enough to live a decent life.

We are all coming out overqualified and underpayed.

[Winchester]