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To a certain degree that's revealed itself to be true (if self-fulfilling). Many jobs that don't require a college degree hire college grads because they can get them and these days not having a college degree is, similar to not having a job currently, a red-flag.

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> Many jobs that don't require a college degree hire college grads because they can get them

Exactly, that's the scam. Requiring a 'Tax' that you pay the college that is nothing but a useless piece of paper, that makes you lose years and enslave you in debt.

Exactly. We are in a trillion dollar signaling arms race funded by the federal taxpayer.

Indeed, so my point was it's not wrong for high schools to tell you to take government money to keep up with the Joneses in the arms race. Unilaterally disarming is seldom the winning move.

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