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Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 02:38:02 UTC No. 16060772
Nowadays, with everyone being more connected, and it being easier than ever to showcase your "talent". Why is a college degree still needed? It did make sense before the internet because then you couldn't really prove to someone that you were good at something other than being extremely exceptional. The employer needed some sort of proof that you could actually commit to something long term.
Now with youtube. You could actually show someone your work ethic in so many different ways. Like if you spent all the time you'd use going through the bureaucracy, all that energy directed to self knowledge would probably be way more than what you could get out of university.
Do you see where im going with on this question? It's like if you couldn't make it without a degree, why would you make it with one?
One flaw in this thinking is that certain professions require licensing. Like obviously no one wants a self taught surgeon. But a simple lawyer or math researcher, i dont really see it.
Like someone theorizing on a blackboard is really that dangerous? I dont think so.
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 02:58:39 UTC No. 16060795
>>16060772
You have to do a degree because the people before you had to do a degree and the rule is whoever comes after them has to do something equal or harder than what they had to do.
Making a degree shorter or removing the requirements to have a degree is bad because of the rule mentioned above. This how adults deal with situations in the real world because they're smarter because they're older than you.
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 03:42:56 UTC No. 16060818
>>16060772
Employers actually don't care about college degrees as much anymore thanks to women with worthless meme degrees flooding the job market
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 04:32:38 UTC No. 16060856
>>16060772
>Now with youtube. You could actually show someone your work ethic in so many different ways. Like if you spent all the time you'd use going through the bureaucracy, all that energy directed to self knowledge would probably be way more than what you could get out of university.
Doutbful. When i was in university i studied full time, due to the pressure from having to pass exams. I liked it but i would have studied 10X slower if it was just done at a leisure recreational pace.
Of course the degree as a whole has been somewhat useful, just not worth the time investment desu, my point is i would have never studied so much physics and math, including the boring parts, without being in college
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 05:24:49 UTC No. 16060917
>>16060856
When I said that statement I meant .
>all the time you would spend getting the degree and whatever it takes. Plus all the extra BS like networking .
> instead use that time but self learn but save yourself tens of thousands of dollars.
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 05:33:56 UTC No. 16060923
>>16060772
If you're really good at something, you will quickly realize that YouTube and most free things online will only get you so far. If you want to be one of the best, then you will have to find a competitive institution where you can gauge your skills and improve them, hopefully instructed by some of the best.
What kinds of places might offer this? You don't have to go to college if you're okay with just being a normie at everything. Online content and things like YouTube brings overconfidence. We've all experienced the unfit sports fan yelling at their team but who could barely play in the sport itself. This is what happens when you watch a tutorial on YouTube, you think you can now perform just as good as people who have been honing their talents and skills.
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 06:40:49 UTC No. 16060987
>>16060772
thanks OP, you really opened my eyes
i'm gonna upload videos of myself assembling ikea furniture for 4 hours straight to showcase my work ethic to every HR manager googling my name
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 09:03:41 UTC No. 16061147
Start your own company and hire people without requiring a degree. Be the change you want to see.
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 18:36:24 UTC No. 16061633
>>16060917
>instead use that time but self learn but save yourself tens of thousands of dollars.
You can self learn anything you want, but STEM subjects is not something you can learn on your own. You think you can in principle but in real life that takes many years studying multiple hours a day. If you want that why not do so in college?
The advantage of college is that they actually make you study (or you fail), plus you have classmates to debate complicated topics, teachers will also answer specific questions about the material in these office hours.
Is it worth so much money? I didnt pay anything, however i didnt make any money for many years while i studied. Looking back it was not worth it. Physics is just not worth many years of your youth.
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 18:50:12 UTC No. 16061644
>>16060772
college is essential for building the initial connection. most companies just hire people they already know or by asking their friends around
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 20:10:17 UTC No. 16061732
>>16060923
You act like every academic text worth something isn't already up on the internet and most of them make for far better material than what your professors would shill in college. In fact, it's in these institutions where profit motives and social backstabbing meet that real mediocrity breeds like a cancer.
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 20:14:28 UTC No. 16061737
>>16060772
>One flaw in this thinking is that certain professions require licensing.
go away with your dirty libertarian ideas, hippy.