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Great redirect, but you failed to answer the actual question. But first a rebuttable. First of all the life expectancy between college education and highschool
by SolarNet 8y ago
Great redirect, but you failed to answer the actual question. But first a rebuttable.
First of all the life expectancy between college education and highschool education is 12 years. So that's only a 4 year shorter gap. (Perhaps universal medical care would fix this problem)
Second, do you seriously think the US has the capacity to handle 2 million unemployed truck drivers in the course of a couple years? That's a 10% increase overnight, and I have news for you, schools are already overburdened. (Perhaps free college education would provide the money to improve capacity, and fix two problems with one stone)
Third, the real problem is the jobs. What job are they going to do once they get their degree. Millennials are already one of the most highly trained yes underpaid generations yet, and they have the advantage of youth. The jobs aren't coming back from these sorts of events. (Perhaps a universal basic income would fix this problem)
And finally the real question was: What are we going to do about it. It was a request to have a conversation about the solution. Not to stop it from happening. I've provided my solutions, in the spirit of conversation I would be curious to see what you identify as problems, and your proposed solutions.
- CydeWeys 8y agoComparing college vs high school graduate life expectancies isn't valid because truckers aren't a subset of one or the other; they have a good proportion from both groups. Taking off 12 years is the maximum effect assuming there isn't a single trucker that has a college degree, which of course isn't true.