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Trades are needed and should be respected but instead are treated like fast food work culturally.

I don't know how to explain knowing some of the tradesmen spent years mastering one skill yet not even earning what they deserved.

Skilled trades pay quite well in the US. The biggest issue I continue to hear is there are not enough people going into them. It is stupid and shows the power of propaganda and stigma.

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Welders can make a nice living especially in Texas

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Too many teenagers are going to college

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The ROI doesn't make sense for everyone to go. It never did and it sure doesn't today. That was never the idea. Its a rigged system. That's not to mention the quality and cost being insanely off.

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College tuition is out of control.

Student loans are a racket.

Regarding loan forgiveness, the colleges should pay for forgiveness not the taxpayers

My last student loan payment will be in 2025. I didn’t pay off early because of the low interest rate

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If you look at the spending in education the amount spend on administrators vs. teachers is insane.

As the government has offered more student aid and low interest loans the price has went through the roof. Geee I wonder why that is... Its basic economics. The state distorting the market.

Textbooks are a scam. Complete racket. IMO the government should completely get out of education, not be forgiving loans are trying to make it cheaper. Let them fail. The free market will heal this wound.

Of course this won't happen. The state uses this system to mind control the youth.

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Why do schools need so many administrators?

Even private schools struggle without large donors

It’s worse than a hospital.

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The other issue with education is the fact that they almost all unionized and paid with stolen money from tax payers. These unions are powerful and only support politicians that will continue the gravy train[1].

  1. I was on this gravy train for 5 years before I couldn't take it any more. Union work isn't for me.

They aren't the real world. The world of education is a fantasy world propped up by fiat money printing and market distortion.

Private schools are also affected because they take public money at least almost all of them do. The also take students with "financial aid[1]". In order to be eligible to do those things they have to basically operate like the public institutions. They aren't without blame but the key figure causing the issues is the federal government.

  1. I'm not shaming students who take student aid, I took it.

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