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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12137425/College-enrollment-declines-62-job-growth-restaurants-theme-parks-hospitality-sectors.html
High school graduates shun college for blue collar jobs:
Enrollment declines to 62% as job growth at restaurants,
theme parks and other hospitality sectors soars
. . .
Several reasons. First off, Gen-X is just, well, you know.
College PRICES have just gone over the hill and are climbing
the next hill.
The college ENVIRONMENT has gone politically extreme - you
are expected, sometimes orderer, to swear fealty to social
and political ideologies you can't agree with.
College QUALITY has gone to SHIT - "everybody passes",
"everybody gets a degree" ... degrees are now essentially
WORTHLESS. Rampant cheating via 'AI' has even further
degraded the system and value. When 'equity' became
more important than 'quality', that was IT. The higher
ed system will have to (try and) rebuild from scratch.
Finally, and I've heard this from more than one actual
recent grad, is that 'AI' is expected to make their
chosen profession OBSOLETE within a decade. Why bother ?
Those "blue-collar" "hands-on" jobs are actually the
most 'AI'-resistant. Really good 'AI' is essentially
upon us - but fully-versatile ROBOTS are still quite a
ways off (btw, they'll probably look more like octopi
than humans).
Some companies like Boston Robotics are working on
'androids' - and they're almost gymnastic at this
point - but a PRACTICAL replacement for general-purpose
human labor is not on the near horizon. Actually, the
'AI' economic disruption - which will be more severe
than most admit - may suck all the money out of 'androids'.
Disemployed people can't BUY much stuff ... there's a
'money gap' between here and robotopia that's likely too
large to jump across. Sorry George, no Rosie the
Robo-Maid/Governess ...
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