Bill Clinton helped kickstart the idea that manufacturing jobs weren’t coming back so everyone should just get a college degree. Obama shifted that to ‘learn to code’ and now it turns out that AI can do a lot of the basic coding even if it’s sloppy vibe coding. Besides most of Big Tech chose to use third world labor for the grunt work rather than hire Americans. Now ‘learn to code’ has disappeared, but college degrees are still being pushed.
The trouble though was that while college grads have higher levels of employment, this tends to be distorted by comparing them to people with high school diplomas or less as a complete group, rather than people in that group who pursue actual careers, over crime and all the other stuff that lowers their numbers.
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