Germany's new boom: making money by making stuff

[charrison]

The question is, is that because of the college education or is it that people who obtain college educations have certain "virtues of character" that would help them be more successful than mere high school graduates even if they had only graduated from high school themselves? Is it causation or correlation?

I think it's a mixture of both.

I agree. A degree does not guarantee you are job. However It does show you are able to complete large complex tasks. So the degree is helpful even out of your field in that respect. And as far as out of field go, colleges doing a poor job of letting college student know about the job prospects in their field when they graduate. They have no problem graduating a student into an already flooded field as they got their money out of it.

Right now the Internet is chock full of anecdotal stories about people who have college degrees and even advanced and professional degrees who are unemployed or underemployed-and-involuntarily-out-of-field. The cost of higher education has also skyrocketed, dramatically decreasing people's return-on-investment.

I completely agree, college costs have risen faster than healthcare. We are sending too many people to college and not enough people to trade schools in my opinion. There are lots of good jobs out there that dont require the expense of college education, but do require some formal training.

These two articles, authored or co-authored by a pro-free market economist who is probably a conservative, may be of interest to you:

Why Did 17 Million People Go to College?

From Wal-Mart to Wall Street: Why College Graduates Are Not Getting Good Jobs

Here's a great blog post about the negative effect of globalism on the U.S. written by a guy who seems like a conservative of some sort:

Global Economy? 23 Facts Which Prove That Globalism Is Pushing the Standard of Living of the Middle Class Down to Third World Levels

And there are other economist that say we are the beginning stages of an economic supercycle that will last for the 30 years and create better life for everyone on this planet.

 

[Infohawk]

Where did I ever say that asshat? And don't try and say you weren't talking about me because you're obviously you're quoting my post for a reason. So please, find a post where I described Europe as a dystopia or admit you're full of shit. If anything I usually argue Europe is a lot like the US when debating Euro-haters like COW.

Throckscumbag, care to respond?

 

[CanOWorms]

Not only lawyers but doctors and engineers. Do American-trained foreign engineers and doctors have any obligation to work in the US? In the past they have stayed but more and more are going back home. When a critical mass of the highly skilled trades are gone we will really be fucked.

I thought you were anti-immigrant. In addition, most of the American-trained foreign engineers and doctors are not white, a group of people of which you have a history of animosity towards. Are you going to be comfortable with letting them stay in the country?

 

[Throckmorton]

Where did I ever say that asshat? And don't try and say you weren't talking about me because you're obviously you're quoting my post for a reason. So please, find a post where I described Europe as a dystopia or admit you're full of shit. If anything I usually argue Europe is a lot like the US when debating Euro-haters like COW.

I'm generalizing about you rightwingers. I can't keep track of which ones of you like European socialism. You're probably the only one.

 

[Infohawk]

I'm generalizing about you rightwingers. I can't keep track of which ones of you like European socialism. You're probably the only one.

So you're such a partisan hack that you see everyone who doesn't agree with you as part of the same team? Isn't that sort of pathetic?

Also, do you really think your previous post had any meaning? You were basically braying that "OMG one day one person who I label conservative says something and then a different poster who I also happen to label conservative says something different the next day. OMG conservatives are silly." You could have just admitted that you jumped to conclusions with your quip. Instead you're trying to use stupidity as a defense.