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College is a money scam slave system
Being born as a human is enough to say you are precious & priceless since your birth.
However, this man-made artificial economic/financial system doesn’t know how to work with such precious & priceless things because it wants everything to have value. So, in a “job market” eventually people get valued which is absurd, yet inevitable.
IMO, with or without anything else, just being a good human being is more than enough.
No….now days its about…who you know not what you know
Lol.. no
That’s great news no more college burdin
I was once blue collar and had a great career… (telephone guy) got into a car accident and cant do that anymore so I went and got a batchlors and a MBA… I an unable to find a job…. skills trades is the best career choice you can make
College is a waste of money
@Rico Suave depends on your career choice… Like a doctor or engineering… But other than that… I suggest low voltage work (Cctv, fiber, tele, etc…)
In reality most major companies were created and founded by college and high school dropouts ! such people who youd think would have a disadvantage in life, actually has just the opposite. because to drop out of school gives an individual two things thats crucial to success. 1st. forced to either find work ANY WORK, or chase ones dreams **immediately** to survive, or Apprentice at a company, or self employ, starting ones own business however big however small. in other words.. while everyone else is going to college scrubbing another 4 years of their life just to learn only the very basics of the career they wish to get into, those college and highschool grads are already hitting up the que trying either to get in the door of the career their looking for, or taking the leap into starting a business on a wing and a prayer. And their is a rather high degree of people who go this route and are successful. More over, these are people who are not burdened by student loan debt. Now.. on the flip side you have the college student, going to school spending tons of money in the requirements of schools costs, as well as student loans. A quarter of the time spent is going to classes that has nothing to do with your elective subject, another quarter is spent with classes loosly surrounding your subject of interest. and only from your juion to senior years are you taking classes more or less centered on your elective subject. 2 years of more or less waisted 2 years of basic training in the subject. You leave college with either an associates degree or a Bachelor, and oh a 40 grand bill tapped to you skull. along with an entire generation of new students and past students, those who were still not succefull in landing a job.. all bidding for the same seats in the workforce. And how many of those seats are out their? not many, certainly not enough to cater to the hundreds of thousands of grads from all over the world looking to nail the same jobs. And even worse, now with this finanical elephant of debt your carrying on your back, you cant even manuever like those without such debt. The banks are asking for paying and your forced to take meanial low paying jobs, that in man ways now prevent you from making the sorta neccesary moves to possibly land the job of your planned career. If you dont nail it from the start then you too will find yourselves falling behind the preceeding generation of college grads coming out of school. And that debt is a knife wielding masked assailant at stalking student loan holders at night. taking away their livelihood, their opportunities. and bringing tremendoes stress fear and anxiety into their lives. Then such people are typicall forced to settle with whatever opportunity slightly better than the temp work thats not making ends meet. College, a finanial bust and blow to ones life. so.. you then have those that will take another crack at it, Grad school, higher learning, some go back to school to learn another subject mattter. and some become teachers. because as it seems what better way to do the type of work you want to do, without the fuss of trying to get into that industry is simply to teach.. with little actual experience, if any. And in all this, those who avoided that whole money making machine, took a stab at trying to slip in thru the cracks or simple make their own path, usually see themselves to success money and wealth. And as for the percentage that do goto college and get those jobs.. lets not forget, a percentage of those, loose their jobs for any number of reasons, and the ones that are successful, are still, having to cope with paying off their student debt. still making the system more money and success than they themselves are getting.
Underrated comment
After the massive demon spawn of generation x, z serpent children, anything and everything that has to do with humans or humanity is being exterminated for the democratic deep state corporate beast system antichrist network serpent legion of death.
Everything is gutted, America is finished, destroyed by evil
You could very well be right!
Life is too expensive…
Nope..I also am in a great salary job..with no degree. Thank you Jesus
MBA are so overrrated and such a waste of money
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Nope …. making more money than Wright ever will.
Nope! For profit colleges are bankrupting our youth! Greed in America is running rampant!
I don’t think college is worth it. Going to trade school is better because you spend less time in school, you get a job right away and it’s cheaper. Look at plumbers and electricians they make good money and have no college background. My student loans are very high and it’s very frustrating.
It’s cool they had opportunities but what happened during the economic recession in 2020, they had a couple bad quarters and cut wages and jobs, guess who is on the block first
Eh…If I’m going to get my health checkup, I’d prefer someone with a college degree. Some professions don’t need a college degree like human resources or stock trader or even ‘routine’ software developers. However, you do need people with a high degree of math to figure out those cryptographic algorithms and design the chip.
People don’t need a degree for HR because it’s a useless cancer of a field lol
No, college and universities are lies. You can learn without them, and get paid while learning.
An education is never going to be a bad investment. Promotions are based on one’s educational achievement(s) aside from experience.
never say never.
Sociology degree is close to garbage. Its rude of you to lie like this.
College is just a money making machine. And you idiots are paying for it!!
I had to go to college and then even more school and then training to be a doctor. Everyone else, not sure if it is worth it.
I thought old head Biden was going to pay off the student loans! He will not get my vote next time!
NO!
The more Democrats infect the school system with their non-sense… the less a college degree is worth.
Kids leave college LESS intelligent than when they entered.
Wow, NBC actually posted some real news … and didn’t even try to add in any biased crap. Good job NBC
It depends on the person.
I loved my college education. I put my 4 children through college and paid a lot to do it. I believe in lifelong learning. If you want a job, you don’t need college, but if you want to understand the world and learn to love learning for learning’s sake you do. I feel this news piece is very disingenuous as I am sure all the writers and most, if not all of the staff, have college degrees. College is a major investment in time, effort, and money. But it is one of the few things in life that fundamentally changes a person for the better. And a college education can never be taken away once you have it. And if you believe that the point of college is just to get a job or to “get a diploma to hang on the wall”, you’ve missed the whole point of receiving an education.
Wow!
So. Well. Said!
College makes sense where government licenses are required to legally perform your work duties. STEM is also helpful to have labs and hands on help.
And that’s about it, too.
College is only good for the professors and administradors making good salaries.
Let’s not undercut the long term value of having a college degree. Even though I have debt to pay, I would still opt to go to a 4 year university or trade school. Though I do believe you can succeed without a degree, college helps round a person socially and professionally. It’s an invaluable experience and we should all acknowledge that.
An “invaluable experience” that will soon be paid for by the taxpayer. Going to college is fine but don’t go in expecting us to pay 100% of your student loans
@aara555720 I never said I expected others to pay my loans. Not all people who go to college are trying to default on their loans.
college is only for the top 20% with the iq and grit. The problem is when people are not capable of it and amass a huge debt.
No more full episode uploads, thanks a lot trolls. 😡
No it’s not it will run you up in debt for the rest of your life you will do better selling illegal stuff make more than minimum wage what do you get for been good in life any more nothing ain’t no point been a good person good people never win
Wow I really hate to agree with you but……I really do
No college degree here and own a multimillion dollar repair shop! Although I do have all my certifications
I think the truth about Bankrupting the middle class for a piece of paper has been exposed
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No
Depends if you have money already.
How can you answer this question without a GPA or ed plan?Don’t talk to me without training in your background.I like working with educated people. Also
” Apple ” 🍎 isn’t everything plus online courses suc.
no
No.
I don’t think I like this narrative being put out there even if it might be true for a few because it depends on the career path/ field that he /she is in. Plus, there are always scholarships, grants, programs etc… that helps students with all or most of tuition fees. Find the best avenue that fits your income but get that paper. 📃 💯 👨🎓
I saved 300’000’000 people by giving the cure for hep c feb 15th 1989.P.E.G is the base of covid vacine today.The hep c cure sold $800,000,000.i got zero.I needed law school.or lawyer.
I made the hep c cure with the P.D.R and medical dictionary.I worked in a drug store.I am nyc’s biggest medical secret.
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College is not for everyone. It’s always your not qualified or over qualified. They make it like you have to go to college to get better pay. It’s not like in the 80’s or 90’s. It’s about who you know to get in the door. You can go intern but they already have someone in their mind you probably never going to get a job.
Depends on the college.
Depends on degrees.
Depends on connects.
Depends on fees.
Nope ,join a Union apprentice program .👍🇺🇸
Well America is getting dumber and dumber so of course….
Going to college right out of high school is the best experience to round off the teenage years.
Also, after being in the workforce for a few years academic endeavors at an in person school is very enlightening and refreshing to mingle, study, and learn with and from the staff, faculty, and other students.
I know it was expensive, but I really enjoyed attending classes and thriving in an environment that is focused on excellence.
And what is NBC lying about today.
Supposedly, college is all about having a higher quality of life.
One thing a college assures is debt. A student with an advanced degree could owe almost as much as a low mortgage. On average, a college grad makes 67% more than a high school grad but on average, how much more debt does a college grad have? Also, if you make more, you pay more in taxes. So if you factor in 4 additional years of income that a high school grad makes along with paying less in taxes, I don’t think a college grad would be much better off.
Students would be able to repay their student loans if college was wort it.
Right On!
I wouldn’t trade the social aspect of going away to college. Leaving home for the first time. Best years of my life.
While I agree a college degree is not always necessary, this is nothing more than a Salesforce company infomercial. Stem degrees are have value, while humanity and anything that ends in “ology ” are worthless.
Lol…like Biology right??
No. if you don’t want to work in government. And only want to work with private business. Yes. If you want to work in government and bureaucracy.
“Is college worth the cost?” It depends, in large part, on whether your only goal is to make a lot of money from your college degree, or whether your goal is obtain a well-rounded education. This latter goal is by far the most important one.
If you’re rich…
It does depend and I made money going there. GI Bill, Pell Grants, scholarships, I didn’t even need to work.
Nothing to do with being rich. Learn to identify available resources and opportunities. If you can’t figure out how to pay for it, maybe you shouldn’t be going.
What if I told you college AND these programs are both a scam?
The problem today is that liberals’ degrees are pretty worthless, and that makes them mad.
Most of the conservatives actually try to make money.
Depends what you want to be? Lol cmon missing discussion in this video
Have a spare $1? Savin’ to get a laptop (homejob). No opportunites outside due to constant lockdowns. 💔 Sorry for this. 😷 I’m not a bad person, just a desperate breadwinner. Lost so much since 2020.
Off-topic, I know. 😔 I hope you understand the desperation. I know some people need more help than me and my family but I hope that does not invalidate my cry for help. 😢
Things are getting worse here. We don’t have stimulus checks or anything like USA. So I’m just really doing whatever I can to put food on the table. We may not be killed by the virus but the situation is surely slowly killing us. 💔 Peace be with you. ❤ GOD bless. 🙏
And to anyone who’s also struggling, let’s hold on tight. All will soon be well. 🌈🌈
The only reason why these people are able to work jobs like these without a degree. because they’re Caucasian.
College is basically a bunch of multiple choice and short answer quizzes. It’s filled with professors who can’t teach .. and students who go to great lengths to avoid them .. like I did, traveling across town to take organic chemistry and physics at another college .. at my own expense .. and so did others. I remember two excellent calculus professors, world class .. and others in the sciences that literally ruined student’s chances to go on.
I have found a mixed bag of talent with those with degrees. Sometimes they are high performers and other times it seems like they use their degree as a crutch and constantly talk about it but don’t do much else. I think hard work, dedication and a little skill can take most people to where they deserve to be without a degree.
#ItakeMBA’stoschool
Only if the rich are willing to fully support it through taxes!
My husband makes 3x more than I do without a degree and I have a Master’s that I’ll be paying for, over the next 30 years. It’s practically a car payment😭
30 years? Sounds like a mortgage
@J Money I know, right😭😭😭
Not after the Leadership and corporate America values that are being pushed today.
Yes
NOT WORTH IT UNLESS YOU WORK THE POLE OR CLEAN THE CARPETS.
But I think when you don’t have that degree and you lose that job then where will you go as a black person we really need Master degrees to get out foot in the door so if you are black and brown please get that degree
College makes you follow the biden debut trail into the corruption whole.
Sounds like I need to grab some professors and open up a college. Thanks NBC for the business idea. 😁
In certain fields yes but in general, I don’t think so, specially with these outrageous, price gouging costs 🙄
Need hard work, motivation, and goals.
So dogmatic
Shout-out to the African liVestream community
Too many colleges ripping ppl while no jobs.
Haha such a stupid question, have you seen these idiots coming out of our educational systems? The only thing they gained was a crushing debt, no wisdom, no knowledge, and most importantly their mind has been perversed and twisted… wake up people our children’s well-being is at stake. Time to put a ton of money ( military money) into education.
All these comments proves you don’t need college degree. We played into the rhetoric.
THE WHOLE DEGREE THING WAS INVENTED BY A CERTAIN” GROUP” OF PEOPLE TO KEEP CERTAIN GROUPS OF PEOPLE AT THE BOTTOM!!!
What education??? They have that in this country???? LMFAO I have yet to see this so-called education you speak of…
It depends on the field whether its worth it or not. Some degrees are “worth less” than others
Don’t listen to this horrible reporting, go to college.
As if the United States is not under educated already, you want to make the public less educated!
College….A surefire way to get yourself in stressful, unforgiving debt for the rest of your life.
College is the biggest ripoff!! I want a refund!!!
Who is he?
If you go to a brick & mortar college that’s not Ivy league, you’re basically paying for their athletic program
i hate college its a total scam i hate the school system its only there to benifit the teachers and faculty
College is useful only for specific professions (i.e., lawyer, doctor) all you need is the goal for a skill after high school, put in 4 years of work, become a journeyman and start your own business. There are professional skills programs that have paid training. A little research but there available.
If it’s true then we shouldn’t bail out people out of their college loans.
Yes, You Can Be Successful Without Degree, However, You Will Be Very Narrowly Knowledgeable. Youre Studying Only As Far As The Company Wants.. College Helps Give You A Foundation Of A Broader Range.
I See That You Guys Are Trying To Encourage People To Do Job Training And Go Up, But This Also Discourages From College. Which Gives People Knowledge With Societal Value, Even With Only Associates Degree.
Like Basic cpr and such, Basic intro classes not everyone has common sense an needs to be taught, ex. don’t tough water and electricity
I went to a small community college for a couple years for pretty much an art degree in digital media.
I reconcile accounts and do contract work for banks and finance companies..
We give Israel $3.8 billion every year in foreign aid. They already have government paid free university education and universal healthcare. America is one screwed up country. The Republicans love the ignorant and poor. And they do their damnedest to keep most of their supporters that way. Their REAL constituency are the very wealthy. They pay lip service to and keep the ignorant distracted in the mean time. Go figure.
i wonder how many of these so called successful people with no degree got by on nepotism or some form of it
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How much money do people send to other countries
I think college degrees are a waste of money. I know people who did not go to college making more money than people with degrees.
The Tesla company of Musk in the United States cannot fight against CCP Marxism. The CCP does not want Tesla to get out of China, but wants Tesla to obey the CCP. There is a Dawu Group in China. Its president, Sun Dawu, is an enterprise with excellent Chinese traditional morals. However, the CCP used some unreasonable reasons to arrest Sun Dawu’s family and embezzle all his property. In China, it has always been a place where bad money drives out good money. As long as you are telling the truth, you are fighting against the Communist Party, and they will try every means to either disappear you or become like them.