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scriptjunkie (sj@social.scriptjunkie.us)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jul-2026 02:17:45 JST scriptjunkie

Hard to overstate how messed up the economy & lives of young Americans got due to mass no-strings-attached college subsidies. Universities receive ~$200 billion regardless of grads' ability. The "factory" would learn really quick to not waste years of students' lives if it meant they didn't get paid. The ones taking the money should also be on the hook for results, not just the students.
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1. There will be shortages in the tens or even hundreds of thousands of nurses, physicians, teachers, engineers, pharmacists, mental health counselors, construction workers and airplane mechanics — jobs AI generally can’t do. “All of these people who keep a society functioning are the very people we’re not going to have enough of,” said Ron Hetrick, Lightcast’s principal economist. Among the trends that have been leading to this moment: a mismatch between the careers college graduates are pursuing and the jobs employers are struggling to fill. Far fewer students are majoring in health care fields than are needed to meet demand, for instance. “We have pumped so many young people into business and finance” when what’s really in demand are graduates in other fields, Hetrick said. “It’s like a factory producing these workers like widgets, even though society is saying, ‘We really don’t need them.’ And the factory just keeps pumping them out.”
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