• Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      More infuriating is that higher education was dirt cheap for Baby Boomers. Meaning they CHOSE to stay uneducated, mostly because they “didn’t need it.”

      • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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        1 month ago

        And it was true, they didn’t need it because manufacturing and non-college-educated jobs provided a living wage. Now neither is higher education affordable without decades of debt, but it’s a default qualification to get nearly any job that pays a living wage.