Quote: (08-24-2013 01:59 PM)basilransom Wrote:
The government did ultimately create the problem, or at least amplify it. Federal loans, manufacturing thousands of Byzantine regulations, allowing frivolous lawsuits to go forward, requirement in many states that one go to law school to practice instead of apprenticing. Stricter disclosure rules aren't anti-free market per se either.
One of the greatest follies we made as a society was pushing everyone into a white-collar world--this idea that "everyone should go to college"--as if everyone is pre-disposed to sit quietly in a classroom or behind a desk. The proud, invaluable trades and crafts (taught, for example, in shop classes in high schools everywhere once upon a time) are gone forever.
People who have no business being inside of a college classroom would often thrive in the mechanical arts.