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I did not say self taught is better than training. Universities offer little in the way of training. Many are teaching skills or methods obsolete in the field and employers have to supplement knowledge. I intend my kids to test out of high school around 16, and begin local community college courses while working/interning. Many paths open up from there that can bypass further wasted time on academia.

Some fields REQUIRE 8 years of academic education but most do not.

I'm just saying a wall of college degrees is more often than not only a status symbol of hundreds of thousands of dollars spent with nowhere near that value of knowledge in return.

Ancap Revolt 3mo ago

There's a reason the collective respects education, man. You are objectively wrong.

If you go to a 4 year college for anything that isn't hands on like medicine, you are retarded. Like I said, you can get a BS in 6 months if you want to. You can get a MS in a year. For under $50,000!

In what world is a degree that makes you qualified for a 90k-200k salary job not worth it? Going to a traditional school with a big traditional loan is retarded, I'm with you on that. But the big schools will change to compete with the newer online school. In 25 years, anyone will be accepted into a Harvard, MIT, etc programs, which will be subscription based, performance based, and accredited. This is the Age of Information.

I just know that I won't let uneducated people be in charge of production or people in my future companies. I've seen first hand what people who have never set foot in a business management class can do to a company. They have no idea how to communicate effectively as supervisors; they're the most expensive liabilities. Why play the lottery and try to find the super genius self taught guy when I can just hire a hard working college certified man with a much higher chance of retention? Be serious.

Mind you, the vast majority of Americans make under $50k a year. You need $80k to live and save in a city.

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Leviticus Mathew 3mo ago

I think you're misunderstanding me. I don't disagree with anything you just said. My point is only that MOST college graduates are not educated/trained/competent. They're indoctrinated.

Ancap Revolt 3mo ago

Publicly funded education is the problem. It should just be donation and tuition based. Then prices would go down and quality would go up.

I get what you’re saying. The benefits I’m talking about that come from higher education depend on how resistant an individual is to indoctrination. If they are totally broken down and made submissive, they are worse than useless.

But the indoctrinating parts of education are being destroyed.