Nantucket, there are people that are too dumb to even make it through trade schools or other training. Our prisons are full of people like that. That too isn’t an answer..Unfortunately the need for “sheep” for lack of a better way to describe them, has become nearly zero in a world where they can be replaced by a computer..Companies want people already trained and who have a good track record of employment for a reason: The cost of hiring due to government regulation is so high and the difficulty of firing a poor employee so great that they take no chances. This has been common in Europe where such regulations have been in place for decades too..As for working for little, that too is partially a function of government regulation. A worker making say $35,000 a year is costing an employer about $20,000 a year in regulatory complaince, taxes and fees to the government to keep employed. If you reduced that burden then the employer could raise wages and do so much more easily than trying to increase the profitability of his company to do it..As for Liberal Arts…. When I was doing my engineering and business degrees there was a joke about that. It was an integration of the function of major with respect to gpa. As GPA went from 4.0 to 0 major changed from Engineering / Science to Business to Liberal Arts to Fine Arts….
Nantucket, there are people that are too dumb to even make it through trade schools or other training. Our prisons are full of people like that. That too isn’t an answer..Unfortunately the need for “sheep” for lack of a better way to describe them, has become nearly zero in a world where they can be replaced by a computer..Companies want people already trained and who have a good track record of employment for a reason: The cost of hiring due to government regulation is so high and the difficulty of firing a poor employee so great that they take no chances. This has been common in Europe where such regulations have been in place for decades too..As for working for little, that too is partially a function of government regulation. A worker making say $35,000 a year is costing an employer about $20,000 a year in regulatory complaince, taxes and fees to the government to keep employed. If you reduced that burden then the employer could raise wages and do so much more easily than trying to increase the profitability of his company to do it..As for Liberal Arts…. When I was doing my engineering and business degrees there was a joke about that. It was an integration of the function of major with respect to gpa. As GPA went from 4.0 to 0 major changed from Engineering / Science to Business to Liberal Arts to Fine Arts….