Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Cara Nicole" channel.

@unrealistic5996 There's also the thought process in finding and filtering useful information that's done through academic research, especially in niche fields that aren't so well understood or appreciated by mainstream society. This explains why university grads are in general better at adapting to market upheavals, more consistently scoring jobs in fields well outside what they majored in. For example I work in IT, but I graduated with a sociology degree -- turns out the biggest cybersecurity vulnerability is the casual human at the keyboard with weak passwords and computer hygiene. Through my social science background I'm more familiar with natural motivations and deterrences, and with all that prose writing practice can communicate more effectively than my more technical colleagues between users, sysadmins, and executives. And college connections don't appear to play a role either; I still rarely end up in the same workplace as anyone who also matriculated from my alma mater or even its sister campuses in the University of California system.
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Loans for education are still ultimately positive as graduates are generally more adaptable to market changes, but you'd need to actually internalize the thought process behind studying for the lessons (not so much the lesson material itself) and get your degree. Remember it's like half of Americans who begin college fail to finish, but their student loans are still part of the debt load.
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3:50 Reagan cut funding towards "intellectual luxuries" cut in the 1970s. What else happened in the 1970s? The disconnect began between rising productivity and rising wages.
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