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Title: Our next reality TV President Post by WebsterMark on 04/17/19 at 05:00:38 Interview with Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs I’m outraged; everybody’s outraged, but you step back and you look at it, I think it’s fair to say, what is most outrageous? What are we really angry about? Cheaters are bad; cheaters are bad because when people cheat, people who don’t cheat get taken advantage of and that’s just fundamentally not fair. We all get that; but rich cheaters seem to really upset us especially, and I think part of what’s crystallized the outrage around this story is that the people who most egregiously cheated had an awful lot of money. And for my money, as I step back to look at it, I was like, well, yeah, that is kind of disgusting, but where is the outrage for the cost of college in general? You don’t have to be rich or famous to believe that your kid is doomed to fail if they don’t get a four-year degree. There are millions of parents in the country right now, millions, who genuinely feel that if they don’t do everything they can to get their kid into a good school they will fail the kid. So where’s the outrage for the pressure that we put on a seventeen-year-old to borrow $100,000? So much of that pressure comes from their mom and dad; it’s well-intended, but it’s kind of tragic. And where’s the outrage for the guidance counselors, who continually say the best path for the most people just happens to be the most expensive. And the politicians and the lobbyists who exacerbate the same myth and the employers who still insist on only interviewing people with a four-year degree. We set the table in a pretty self-evident way, and when we scratch our heads … you’re exactly right: the cost of tuition is increasing faster than inflation but also faster than health care, faster than real estate, faster than food, faster than energy. Never before in the history of Western Civilization has anything so potentially important become so egregiously expensive. So, college is expensive because we’ve freed up an unlimited pile of free money and told an entire generation they were doomed to fail if they didn’t borrow it, and that’s happened in every single tax bracket, not just the top one. I think because we’re stuck in this perpetual binary box. It’s this or that. Right, it’s blue-collar or white color, good job or bad job. Higher education or higher alternative education. And when you only have two choices or when you think you only have two choices, you do one thing at the expense of the other. So for instance, I know we have talked about this before, but it just seems so clear now. When four-year degreed universities needed a p.r. campaign 40 years ago, they got one. But the p.r. came at the expense of all of other forms of education. So it wasn't just, “Hey, Tucker go get your liberal arts degree because it will give you a broad-based of appreciation for the humanities." It was, "If you don't go get that degree, you’re going to wind up over here turning a ranch or running a welding torch or doing some kind of vocational consolation prize." We promoted the one thing at the expense of all of the others. And that one thing just happened to be the most expensive thing. Rowe concluded: And so, look, I don't think the skills gap is a mystery. I think it’s a reflection of what we value. Seven million jobs are available now; most of them don’t require a four-year-degree. They require training. And yet we’re obsessed, not really with education, you know. What we are obsessed with is credentialing. And so people are buying diplomas. And they’re buying their degrees. It’s a diploma dilemma, honestly. It’s expensive. It is getting worse. It's not just the kids holding the note. It is us. |
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Title: Re: Our next reality TV President Post by raydawg on 04/17/19 at 07:15:24 Web, I think this is why folk like Bernie are talking about "free" education. When I read the above, I see the "system" is set up to capitalize off of education, just as medicine is, and I think that is where all the differing of opines get heated, confused.....or do I dare say, capitalized upon.... Yes, education has lost the needed 4 R's basic mindset/quest, and folks have used it to push agendas, etc, overloading the system for what is wasn't ever intended to do, and that would include being babysitters....I'm afraid. |
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Title: Re: Our next reality TV President Post by justin_o_guy2 on 04/17/19 at 07:59:01 What we are obsessed with is credentialing. My dad graduated high school. He oversaw drilling in Libya and Nigeria in the sixties. He ran a couple of oil companies. Today, without the diploma, no way would he had been put in those positions. I wonder about the qualifications of those who have followed. |
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Title: Re: Our next reality TV President Post by WebsterMark on 04/17/19 at 08:08:51 Education is a big business, run by liberals by the way, and it's a failure for the most part. Applied sciences? Sure, you need higher level education. But do you really need a Masters Degree in education? If you don't understand how to communicate to children by then, what's another couple years of school going to do? Jog's dad is a perfect example of getting $hit done. That has always been Rowe's theme. |
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Title: Re: Our next reality TV President Post by T And T Garage on 04/17/19 at 08:42:52 I'd vote for Mike in a heartbeat. One of the smartest, well versed public figures out there. |
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Title: Re: Our next reality TV President Post by Serowbot on 04/17/19 at 09:15:50 I'm going to write in Tom Hanks... |
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Title: Re: Our next reality TV President Post by verslagen1 on 04/17/19 at 09:53:59 253B343538253E23510 wrote:
I can imagine Mike throwing open some hatch in the middle of the congress floor, stinking to high heaven or congress as the case is then giving the state of the union speech. I think he would get his point across. |
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Title: Re: Our next reality TV President Post by LostArtist on 04/17/19 at 10:20:17 absolutely no problem with any of that.... I wish I could get some retraining and help fill that skills gap, even though I like my job and life for the most part, idk. it is what it is, not the worst ever. but yeah I totally understand his point of view |
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