#2 | Posted by oneironaut

Better than a place where humanoid robots roundhouse kick children in the chest, dips*&^.

Educational attainment is a key driver in long term economic growth.

Years ago a generic bachelors was correlated with higher earning potential. Is that still the case given the debt load new graduates are all but guaranteed to have taken to graduate?

I know the right likes to sneer at degrees as if everyone is sitting in their lecture halls high as a kite learning basket weaving because they want to believe education isn't worth it and their little brains have to justify their ignorance.

However, when one considers the most frequently granted degree category is business (last I looked, business degrees accounted for 40-something % of total degrees awarded), their argument falls apart immediately.

The perception of education on the right that was on display during the whole student loan forgiveness debate was sad. They're clearly clueless and quite content to be so.

Socioeconomic status at birth has always been the strongest prediction of socioeconomic status at adulthood.

Except degrees correlated with increased earning potential and upward mobility regardless of what point you started at.

I don't know about you, but where I am now is not equal to the socioeconomic level my family was when I was born. I probably make as much now as my parents made COMBINED at their peak earning years.