Comments by "Vic 2.0" (@Vic2point0) on "" video.
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@J10005 "Those topics are massively correlated to each other as much of that money goes to the largely counterproductive offensive wars worth trillions of dollars hence why I mentioned it."
Well again, I wasn't talking about whether the money purportedly going to our defense, actually is. I was just saying that this is the role of government whereas making sure we can all go to college isn't.
But coincidentally, I'm assuming you agreed with Trump's decision to at least pull troops out of Syria then?
"That is why some people argue using some of that military budget and reallocating for tuition-free education is good money since we don't need such of an excess of military spending and can some if that money use it for other important matters."
Well no, the money should go back to the American people, if it isn't needed for the purposes it was taken for to begin with.
"College became extremely unaffordable in the US with a trillion-dollar student loan debt issue that people are graduating into making it harder to effectively start-up in life."
And while that's a problem we need to do something about, I don't think it justifies stealing from the taxpayers at large. Particularly in light of the problem I highlighted earlier, where almost half of the people graduating are underemployed with many of them destined to be so perpetually.
"Like i said before 1. You need degrees now these days to make effective money"
The link you put under this one says many good things about having a degree, but it doesn't say that. And I don't know what your idea of "effective money" is (sounds suspicious, like "living wage"). But I get by pretty well, and even though I have a degree it wasn't really necessary for what I'm doing.
"2. Almost all new jobs being created are going to college grads without high school grads dying out"
That, again, doesn't mean they needed those degrees for those particular jobs. In fact, the link I provided would suggest that almost half of them didn't. I suppose it could be argued that having some sort of degree is more impressive than not, generally speaking; but then again, so is having more work experience which time spent earning a degree (particularly one that isn't directly relevant to the job you end up with) diminishes.
What this means, BTW, is that the American people would not only be funding the acquisition of these degrees, but the degrees themselves wouldn't even be worth funding about half the time.
"3. High school grads face higher rates of unemployment than college grads https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/D693DF78-8897-11E9-B5BC-B448D8AE8ED6
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From the article,
"The EPI researchers found this year’s graduates who head directly into the workforce are likely to fare better than graduates from the classes of 2008 through 2018, but worse than 2000 graduates."
That sounds, to me, like an improvement over recent years, and specifically for those with only a high school diploma. But to your point, again, I'm not finding the statement you gave anywhere in that article. But even assuming you're correct on that, that's a correlation one could just as easily attribute to a general lack of determination, willingness to work hard, etc. The lazy individuals are probably less likely to enroll in college, and also less likely to hold a steady job.
"While some people with degrees face job issues that largely due to how extremely demanding and competitive the job market people want to experience in top of degrees for their companies which is pretty difficult for some early just out of college grads to achieve right away."
Regardless of the reason, these degrees prove useless to many.
"Making college tuition-free would remove the financial barriers that people have going into college without graduating into deep debt who would help a lot of people."
At the expense of even more people (poor and lower-middle class people disproportionately, I might add). And with just over half of these degrees proving useful in any real way, this is just another layer of issues with that idea, on top of the fact that government was never meant to have the power to just take your money for anything the masses (or sometimes just the few in power) deem "worth it".
"It'd also help better prepare our economy for the inevitability of automation with more people ready to have more higher-skilled jobs in the loss of low skill high school grad like jobs that will be lost under it."
Yeah, I don't get why people talk about automation as if it's something new. Our entire society is already automated far beyond anything people a hundred years ago could've imagined. There's always talk of never having to work again; meanwhile, we've literally more jobs than we know what to do with and there's no real sign of that changing.
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