The Idiocy of College for All

was always apparent when in fact few jobs have ever required much more than a high school diploma.  Because more and more people were going to college, businesses merely used that as a screening device.  A degree, however, is a piss-poor substitute for a union card.

Even when college degrees are required, more and more businesses are trying to "outsource" jobs to other countries, even some medical  and legal work.  Eventually education will go that way too once the privatizers are allowed to put through online schools for K-12 without restrictions.

One of the greatest changes is that a college degree is no longer the guarantor of a middle-class existence. Until the early 1970s, less than 11 percent of the adult population graduated from college, and most of them could get a decent job. Today nearly a third have college degrees, and a higher percentage of them graduated from nonelite schools. A bachelor’s degree on its own no longer conveys intelligence and capability. To get a good job, you have to have some special skill — charm, by the way, counts — that employers value. But there’s also a pretty good chance that by some point in the next few years, your boss will find that some new technology or some worker overseas can replace you.

Our worthless and corrupt Congress, in love with the debunked and discredited theory of neoliberalism--will see to it that it happens.