@sayartyler @bot Almost everyone sees college as a glorified trade school now. Hardly anyone goes to college to get "educated in the finer things" or to learn about art and culture. They go for a JOB.

That's why college has become so ridiculously expensive. It was sold to the middle classes of the 20th century as THE way to get a good job-- and the price went up and up and up.

It's a cargo cult mentality-- college grads, before this shit happened, were generally people who were really interested in subject matter and could bring original and workable ideas to bear on their industries. Because they were like that BEFORE they ever went to university. But our entire civilization took correlation for causation and blew the importance of the university for getting a job way out of proportion, while obliterating its importance as a way to preserve and propagate the culture of said civilization.

It's a bunch of mess is what it is.