Its an interesting topic. And one I think that should go to the heart of red pill culture ie understanding the truth behind the mirage.
The problem with the article is that while there are some elements of truth, there is a hell of a lot of spin and bullshit.
Sure there are too many degrees given to people who aren't smart/capable enough for "traditional high standard degrees". But many of these people in the past would have done HNDs etc anyways. AND their air hostess/whatever bullshit now actually HAS "graduates only" requirements!
A second problem is that in numerous countries eg Britain, we have a complete lack of meritocracy. Some silly little rich girl who has no brains but an expensive education gets some flash job in finance and then packs it in for teaching after ten years. When in the past, that job would have gone to a hungry and smart guy from a normal background.
Some will say that technology has taken jobs away. Well its taken SOME jobs away. But tech has massively increased the potential options for businesses to develop. However, the problem is that they've used that tech to export quality jobs to frankly places that operate as "coolie countries" ie dirt cheap wages and slavemaster employer mentality. For the greedy bastards at the helm of our multinationals, thats a sick dream come true.
China has changed from rice fields, bicycles and fuck all to highly skilled jobs - the initial motor of which is almost exclusively US or European or "the Western club" companies. Now with companies like Huawei and the like, they can actually challenge and beat the companies like Apple and Motorola that allowed them to start off.
China has changed from 3rd (or even FOURTH world!) to cutting edge for a region that encompasses probably 450 million of its 1.4 billion people. Imagine even if 30% of those skilled jobs had gone to youngsters/others in the West! Imagine all that money recirculating and being grown amongst Western citizens. Most young people in the West would now be enjoying an utterly fantastic standard of living.
But instead there is an explosion of shitty jobs for young grads. Uber, Deliveroo (pizza deliverers), cold calling call centres. skivvys in hotels ie jobs that young can't actually export to China! Often they're actually far worse jobs than the so called "coolie country" jobs. Sometimes its factories producing cheap tat in the West, solely bcause freight costs make it uneconomical to produce them in China.
Some say that the West won the Cold War. I disagree. I reckon it was China and the like. While the US and Russia spent zillions on millions of ways to destroy the World 1000 x over, China was industrialising, planning to win the peace. Once a joke of a country, it became the envy of the World. Whereas Western standards of living have plummeted for many.
Under 40s in the West actually did EXACTLY what the (LMAO) "wise men" in education, economics and the media told them.
Get yourself skilled up in service industry/white collar. Do IT and programming. Do a law or business degree, do sciences. Do the "essential" of atleast one degree. They were told manufacturing was dead. That the public sector was shrinking, that programming was everything etc etc.
But what was the reality? The only guarantee a degree gave was a loss of earnings, debt, and being 5, 8, TEN years behnd on the career ladder. Grads who took current advice and tried to "start at the bottom" had personnel staff saying "oh u might be a bit overqualified, what do we do if you leave?" ie FUCK OFF.
Programming jobs often got outsourced to India, programmers skills became obsolete. I know one programmer who became a plumber - one of the very jobs people were being advised against. Few science grads get real science jobs ... outside of teaching! The safe, steady sector is actually public sector work - medicine, nursing, teaching, local govt etc. So much for the "business will be the engine of our economy" line! Private sector jobs are often lower pay, very short term and unstable and actually harder to find for so many! I know people with "new media" degrees doing quite well - yet their degrees were often decried as "gimmicky crap". Yet I know smart law grads who never used their law degrees or even got good salaried jobs at all! 1st class degree in science? Have you ever considered the "booming" fast food sector?
Its puzzling to gauge how all this happened. My view is that there was much "talking up the economy" AND what the future really was. Universities are appallingly dishonest and greedy profit makers. Vice Chancellors make ridiculous amounts of money. Even shitty ones demand mansions "to entertain guests"! Powerful forces wanted to oversee the export of their own capital abroad and to hell with their fellow citizens.
The Establishment wanted a glut of skilled labour, just like it wanted a glut of manual labour available in the past. Successive govts have no desire to stop the continued export of capital abroad. Just look at the Clinton gang. These same forces own much of the media, so they will continue to blame graduates for..... following the advice THE SAME peoople gave them 5, 10, TWENTY years earlier. Sure Trump will say "America first" - but who in the Establishment wants to back him?
My view is that we should start a boycott of Western companies who don't look after our own citizens. That way, they can fuck off and just sell to the Chinese!
The problem with the article is that while there are some elements of truth, there is a hell of a lot of spin and bullshit.
Sure there are too many degrees given to people who aren't smart/capable enough for "traditional high standard degrees". But many of these people in the past would have done HNDs etc anyways. AND their air hostess/whatever bullshit now actually HAS "graduates only" requirements!
A second problem is that in numerous countries eg Britain, we have a complete lack of meritocracy. Some silly little rich girl who has no brains but an expensive education gets some flash job in finance and then packs it in for teaching after ten years. When in the past, that job would have gone to a hungry and smart guy from a normal background.
Some will say that technology has taken jobs away. Well its taken SOME jobs away. But tech has massively increased the potential options for businesses to develop. However, the problem is that they've used that tech to export quality jobs to frankly places that operate as "coolie countries" ie dirt cheap wages and slavemaster employer mentality. For the greedy bastards at the helm of our multinationals, thats a sick dream come true.
China has changed from rice fields, bicycles and fuck all to highly skilled jobs - the initial motor of which is almost exclusively US or European or "the Western club" companies. Now with companies like Huawei and the like, they can actually challenge and beat the companies like Apple and Motorola that allowed them to start off.
China has changed from 3rd (or even FOURTH world!) to cutting edge for a region that encompasses probably 450 million of its 1.4 billion people. Imagine even if 30% of those skilled jobs had gone to youngsters/others in the West! Imagine all that money recirculating and being grown amongst Western citizens. Most young people in the West would now be enjoying an utterly fantastic standard of living.
But instead there is an explosion of shitty jobs for young grads. Uber, Deliveroo (pizza deliverers), cold calling call centres. skivvys in hotels ie jobs that young can't actually export to China! Often they're actually far worse jobs than the so called "coolie country" jobs. Sometimes its factories producing cheap tat in the West, solely bcause freight costs make it uneconomical to produce them in China.
Some say that the West won the Cold War. I disagree. I reckon it was China and the like. While the US and Russia spent zillions on millions of ways to destroy the World 1000 x over, China was industrialising, planning to win the peace. Once a joke of a country, it became the envy of the World. Whereas Western standards of living have plummeted for many.
Under 40s in the West actually did EXACTLY what the (LMAO) "wise men" in education, economics and the media told them.
Get yourself skilled up in service industry/white collar. Do IT and programming. Do a law or business degree, do sciences. Do the "essential" of atleast one degree. They were told manufacturing was dead. That the public sector was shrinking, that programming was everything etc etc.
But what was the reality? The only guarantee a degree gave was a loss of earnings, debt, and being 5, 8, TEN years behnd on the career ladder. Grads who took current advice and tried to "start at the bottom" had personnel staff saying "oh u might be a bit overqualified, what do we do if you leave?" ie FUCK OFF.
Programming jobs often got outsourced to India, programmers skills became obsolete. I know one programmer who became a plumber - one of the very jobs people were being advised against. Few science grads get real science jobs ... outside of teaching! The safe, steady sector is actually public sector work - medicine, nursing, teaching, local govt etc. So much for the "business will be the engine of our economy" line! Private sector jobs are often lower pay, very short term and unstable and actually harder to find for so many! I know people with "new media" degrees doing quite well - yet their degrees were often decried as "gimmicky crap". Yet I know smart law grads who never used their law degrees or even got good salaried jobs at all! 1st class degree in science? Have you ever considered the "booming" fast food sector?
Its puzzling to gauge how all this happened. My view is that there was much "talking up the economy" AND what the future really was. Universities are appallingly dishonest and greedy profit makers. Vice Chancellors make ridiculous amounts of money. Even shitty ones demand mansions "to entertain guests"! Powerful forces wanted to oversee the export of their own capital abroad and to hell with their fellow citizens.
The Establishment wanted a glut of skilled labour, just like it wanted a glut of manual labour available in the past. Successive govts have no desire to stop the continued export of capital abroad. Just look at the Clinton gang. These same forces own much of the media, so they will continue to blame graduates for..... following the advice THE SAME peoople gave them 5, 10, TWENTY years earlier. Sure Trump will say "America first" - but who in the Establishment wants to back him?
My view is that we should start a boycott of Western companies who don't look after our own citizens. That way, they can fuck off and just sell to the Chinese!