Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "The 1,200 Year Rise u0026 Fall of the College Degree" video.

  1. I think you need to research the German education system. The amount of PhD's in the higher echelons of Germany government and private sector management reflects a different perspective in the usefulness of a PhD. Research skills are a pretty useful in policymaking and management, because you can turn those into projects that are innovative inside government and industry, to inform one's management policies. After a career in research for 10 years or so, transitioning to management or governance is not an impossibility, or undesirable.
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  2. Unfortunately, it's not the students you need to convince, but the rest of society. Snobbery is a thing, and even though it's true "where there's muck there's brass," not everyone wants to do a trade or even has a talent for one. Also, trades requiring apprenticeships, means often subsisting on relatively low pay for several years. Until society, or more specifically, those who run society restructure the world of work as a social hierarchy, there are no guarantees. Trades suffer barriers to entry too. Trade colleges and apprenticeships often replicate social hierarchies like nepotism, racism, etc. So this video oversimplifies in its conclusions. Capitalism has competition it's heart but it's suffers the same gaming of the system as the rest of society. Hamsters on a wheel not of our own making? What if we stepped off and carfefully examined the probabilities?
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