Job security wise, America is being
controlled by an oligarchy; one percent of the population is forcing the rest
to become highly educated. That one percent contains the college graduates with
the highest honors, the ones that earn the terminal degrees. The number of
people becoming educated is higher than ever before in the United States. Sooner or later, high school graduates are going to be
forced to obtain a master’s degree, or maybe even a doctorate to secure their
careers. Is this fair? The degree(s) one has now has a great effect on one’s
job security in America. Is this a good thing?
College
is expensive. And if college is vital in order to survive, students must come
up with the money to pay for it. Parents are then forced to pay for costly ACT
and SAT tutors to aid their children in securing scholarships. If financial aid
fails, students are forced to turn to student loans, which turn into long-term student
debt. Just think: one can’t just stop at a bachelor’s degree anymore. Students
have to earn a second or third degree to survive, adding to their debt and
guaranteeing that they will be unable to pay it off before they die.
So what
should we do? Should we convince students to ignore college altogether? Yes,
that might lower the bachelor’s degree prices by a good amount, but that would
leave the college un-bound high school graduates with associate’s degrees or
less, which tend not to lead to well-paying jobs; or worse yet, leading to
terrible, annoying, time consuming, minimum wage jobs. This also wouldn’t alter
the one percent oligarchy immediately. If anything, it would make it worse. It
just might lower the one percent to a terrifyingly low decimal rather than
raising the percentage.
Maybe
there isn’t really a good answer. As a college student who received tons of
federal aid and was already planning on earning a master’s degree, I can’t say
that the system is all that terrible yet. It’s not as bad as China’s Confucian
system where only 0.16 percent made the required terminal degree. Perhaps when
the system does become that bad it will be the least of America’s worries.
We’ll have an even higher national debt, no social security, no job security,
and much else to stress about.
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