Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "The Problem with "Free" College | Joe Rogan u0026 Andrew Yang" video.

This is a talking point. The most common college major by far is Business Administration, and has been for well over a generation. (Without a lot of accounting to qualify for a CPA, or finance and the math to go with that, it just exists to prove docility to employers.) The next three or four most popular majors are related to health care in some way. All together, that accounts for about half of all college students. We haven't even mentioned engineering, computer science, or pre-law. So someone somewhere majors in Women's Studies and goes on to journalism or film school. Big deal.
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@imccc Gender Studies majors are extremely rare, and account for less than 1% of all degrees conferred. But combine it a full minor or second major in photography and you'll go farther in fashion merchandising than any Business major ever could. Or, go to law school, specialize later in Title IX. IOW, These are just stupid talking points, intended to shift blame (like most things). Of course you're right -- it depends. The only true rags to riches story I know was an art major, who went on to make iconic commercials. And later was sorry he never made a "real" movie.
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State universities in America were free or nearly so not that long ago. A full-time student at a major state university paid a thousand or so in tuition in the 1970s, sometimes more but often less. Dorm fees and dorm food, and housing in general, were the real problem.
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@Sandier Ramirez When I was a kid, college students could work full time for minimum wage over the summer and easily make enough to cover their state-school tuition for the entire year. This built AUTONOMY. It was good for more than a college education. It was education for self-reliance and responsibility and pride. Having to go into debt for a necessity is always detrimental. A summer job that lets you pay for more than one or two classes cannot happen any more. It doesn't exist.
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ɮᴇᴄφᴍɪnɢ - WR On the contrary, no tuition, fees-only is the rule. It's a tradition dating from Socrates contra the Sophists, the latter being the first teachers for pay in Europe.
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Brian Abisdid The late, great public land-grant universities had tuition and fees so low that a full-time summer job covered it, and usually covered books as well. Oddly enough, students studied on average more hours than they do now, and they didn't even have much in the way of computers to help them.
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