Comments by "Dick Riggles" (@dickriggles942) on "Apprenticeships vs. College: Are Traditional Universities Losing Appeal? | WSJ Your Money Briefing" video.

Americans think it's a badge of honor to overpay for stuff and get ripped off. I was in Vegas at Carnegie's. Some British frat boy types came up, looked at the prices, scoffed and walked away. Americans generally are impressed by high prices and will even defend being ripped off, running off the list of expenses a business has or claiming it's an indicator of quality, even if said business charged a fraction of the price before and was still wildly profitable. This basically is how college has gotten so expensive. Americans don't protest or complain.
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I work in education. Your average community college grad probably did nothing in high school and aspired to be a singer, athlete or drug dealer. When none of that happened and they had to go to community college, what do you think happened? Do you think the college said, "You're not right for higher education, go back to Wendy's?" They pass them. So you're getting total bums that went to community college unless they happened to be a bright person who was down on their luck and ended up there. Even many major college graduates aren't great workers.
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College is absolute garbage. It's a scam. Most colleges are coasting off their former prestige which may actually have been earned and do nothing but hire professors to show powerpoints, hire teaching assistants who can't even pay rent to ask stupid questions for an hour, and in May four years later, you look back and wonder if you actually learned anything useful. A lot of the weeder classes were totally corrupt too. I'm pretty sure you needed to be friends with a professor or teaching assistant to get the answers so you could beat the curve. The questions on exams were so wacky and had nothing to do with the course material. Also, when illiterate students are getting better grades than you, it's time to go. I literally saw this happening. I wish I was on drugs and failed high school. I probably would have been more successful in life getting some trade after getting cleaned up, LOL. I actually messed up doing the right thing!
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@ericcarson342 What are you smoking?
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@FutureCommentary1 One of the dumbest posts I've ever read. Your parents clearly have money and you're delusional. Or you're twelve.
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We didn't know better. No one went to college in the sixties and seventies. By the time Gen X and Millennials went, they were telling everyone to go and universities were happy to take their money. When you look at how ignorant some boomers are, it's very obvious college was way easier back in their day.
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