Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "The Chinese Student Crisis" video.
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From my experience, university education is largely a scam and i have 4 technical degrees and one humanities diploma. The reason most people take their time away from working as young adults to do at least one degree is to fullfill expectations of qualifying for and attaining professional or para-professional work when the degree is completed. In my case, this took four goes, because at least two were unfulfilled or not the right profession for me. I strongly suspect that many young adults emerge from universites with a degree, finding that thousands of their ilk are applying for a handful of jobs and after about a year of waiting on tables (for example) for a pittance of a wage and applying for handreds of jobs in a saturated market and going to a handful of dispiriting failed interveiws, that the young person (a year later) feels deep frustratration and low self-esteem after the brief high of graduation. This is because the economic system for degree-mania (by employers) is largely unattainable and untenable, making a lot of angry but well educated young adults. The Chinese, a people placing very high expectations on degrees making a future for prosperity and job satisfaction, are going to be equally disappointed and equally dissatified. Universities play on the hopes and expections of young people, and after the blood, sweat and tears or working hard to attain your degree, find a mirage in the desert. This is phase one of a social revolution when it is discovered that corruption will play it's part in shoe-horning a few lucky (and well lubricated and connected) graduates into a few strongly sort-after positions (this is happening in the West as well as China). When this scandal is discovered, then watch University campuses across all countries literally explode with rage.
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