Donald Trump: polls of approval and favorability

[Bob Butler 54]

(07-12-2017, 08:26 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: ...OK, so there aren't enough desirable jobs to go around in a culture in which a BA degree is normal. Sure, menial work seems like a waste of talent, as does most semi-skilled work.

I'd agree that we spending a lot of effort and money providing people with a better education than they need.  In a lot of ways people are spending a lot of time, money and youth on not much.  If you take on the usual perspective of cutting the fat, educating only enough educated people to do jobs that require an education, it makes sense to cut schools and students.

There are other times I also consider the alleged post scarcity economy.  There are more people than jobs, and this is apt to get worse.  Do we put a lot of college professors, support staff, not to mention students out out on the streets looking for jobs?  From the scarcity perspective, isn't the objective to create jobs of any sort to give folks a chance to participate in the economy?  Is the side effect of having a population of well educated folk with fairly useless skills all that bad?

Just trying to think outside the box.  I learned that in college...