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   Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Aug-2022 22:01:35 JST Alex Gleason
   They forgot "College dropout: $100K+"
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     Alpha Kilo Papa (alphakilopapa@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 00:23:48 JST Alpha Kilo Papa

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     @alex Im a college drop out and I make slightly less than my sister who has her masters... College is a scam.

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     Rusty Crab :lazer_z: (rustycrab@kiwifarms.cc)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 00:23:51 JST Rusty Crab :lazer_z:

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     @Alphakilopapa @alex college on the whole isnt as much of a scam as the degrees they offer. 90% of them are wholly worthless. College should be reserved for technical fields (which can include some kinds of technical art).
     
     The truth is that 90% of students that go to college choose to get piss easy degrees that just burn money. The catch is that they and their parents aren't really in a position to know any better.
     
     So I guess the way to say it is that 90% of college is a scam.
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     Alpha Kilo Papa (alphakilopapa@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 00:24:08 JST Alpha Kilo Papa

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     @RustyCrab College has not been "it" since the dawn of the internet yet people still send their children to it.

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     Rusty Crab :lazer_z: (rustycrab@kiwifarms.cc)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 00:24:08 JST Rusty Crab :lazer_z:

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     • Alpha Kilo Papa
     @Alphakilopapa I haven't done research on it myself but I hear enrollment has been sharply declining simply because of massive ROI failures.
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     Alpha Kilo Papa (alphakilopapa@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 00:24:09 JST Alpha Kilo Papa

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     @RustyCrab @alex If we have to have the 90% become brainwashed just so the 10% can be educated than it is 100% a scam. Systems should become more efficient, especially when you pour your brightest and best into them. College destroys more minds than it enlightens.

     100% scam.

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     Rusty Crab :lazer_z: (rustycrab@kiwifarms.cc)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 00:24:09 JST Rusty Crab :lazer_z:

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     • Alpha Kilo Papa
     @Alphakilopapa @alex there needs to be SOMETHING to pass on technical knowledge to the next gen. And no, "learning on the job" is not an option for a lot of fields. There's an entire infrastructure required. That's even true for software engineering since there's a ton of topics that simply never come up in the normal course of business, but you still need to implicitly know them if you want to be anything more than a code monkey.
     
     However, I agree that the current form of college is not it.
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     d (deprecated_ii@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 00:24:13 JST d

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     • Alpha Kilo Papa
     @RustyCrab @Alphakilopapa it's completely unaffordable and scholarships/grants are handed out along social justice guidelines, as in if you're a white guy you're not getting a dime
     
     if I could afford to go back to school I wouldn't need to go back to school
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     Rusty Crab :lazer_z: (rustycrab@kiwifarms.cc)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 00:24:14 JST Rusty Crab :lazer_z:

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     • Alpha Kilo Papa
     @Alphakilopapa I do worry a bit that the 10% of people who SHOULD be going to college will take that as a cue to drop out