Comments by "Grenade Tennis" (@hughjass1044) on "Things I (Do) Worry About: Higher Education in the US || Peter Zeihan" video.

The transition is not going to be an easy one. Once upon a time, a job in the trades was considered a respectable career choice if not always a very glamorous one. But since around the late 70s / early 80s, there has been such a push to get kids into universities and load them up with "degrees" of one sort or another, that trades and manual labor jobs took on the stigma of being "dirty work" that only lower class losers would do. I graduated high school in 1981 and I remember at the time, we had representatives from several universities come through the school promoting their colleges but not a single trade school..... even though our high school was situated right next door to one! A very common attitude expressed to a high performing student who expressed interest in a trade of one sort or another was - you can do way better than that." Even to this day, government policy in higher education is very heavily skewed towards universities and away from trade schools. The politicians and senior public servants all came up in those days when you looked down your nose at trades people and they've never gotten past it.
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