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Originally Posted by fragment
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Originally Posted by LadyShea
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lead to demonstrably different social and economic classes
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See, this is where you all lose me, acting as if the trades are "lesser" or no better than pumping gas. Journeymen can make 6 figures, and Masters often own their own companies. They are very often successful people any way you look at it. |
Especially in a world where people with PhDs in history stack supermarket shelves and Masters in art theory work call centres. Those are two real examples. OK, neither of those people ended up doing those things forever, but it still illustrates that it seems education as a cultural signifier of class doesn't correspond with the economic realities of class any more. |
It does, though. People with advanced degrees, on average, earn more than people without, even if some PhD's have to stock shelves to make ends meet and some uneducated schlubs end up owning businesses.
ETA: I count myself as an uneducated schlub, btw. I dropped out of college during the dotcom boom to work IT and have never gone back, so I'm a "some college" statistic on all the charts.