2014-01-18, 04:33 AM
Luxeraph Wrote:I pom you due to the start of your post but this, this is just stupid, how come people are this stupid in the states? or is it that the government requires them to have certified people? am I wrong or don't they also ask for experience too and thus why it's hard for a newly graduates to get a job?
Employers, including the government itself, are just lazy. They require a degree for any job, even the simplest clerical ones, because why not? Their reasoning is that most of the population has one and those that don't are usually lazy and/or stupid. Yeah, there are some few self-educated people who are smart and hardworking and just never had the time to go to university, but sifting them out of the chaff is hardly worth the effort. Let the universities do our initial screening for us.
This is unfortunately already the case in the USA, as in most (all?) of the "First World," so I'm afraid Polantaris' objection is a generation or two too late. Everyone already has to get a degree, and almost everyone already does. They just get into heavy debt to do it, even though the government spends (according to the article, anyway) more on loans, scholarships, and grants than it would just paying everyone's tuition outright.