Got Millenials? Democrats Should Address the Student Loan Crisis Immediately

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181. Then divert the tax monies to libraries.

Not a lot of wealth is being generated by pizza deliverers and burger flippers with master's degrees.

I'm facing a serious crisis of self-worth right now because we as a society don't really have a way (outside of academia itself, which is basically a self-reinforcing envelope-stuffing scheme of learning liberal arts so you can teach liberal arts to people who learn liberal arts and then teach liberal arts...) for people who study things like political science and sociology to put bread on their table -- and I'm afraid/ashamed to be facing the prospect of ending up on welfare someday. I just don't have a "mathematical mind" and struggle to learn 21st-century job skills like computer coding and anything healthcare-related. Writing an English 201 paper comparing Dracula to Hannibal Lecter does not a good hematologist make.

What used to happen years ago is that someone with an English degree could still get an OK-paying job as maybe a bank teller or something in a respectable place like the local credit union. Otherwise, they could always get a government job or (last resort?) become a teacher. Now nobody wants to be a teacher because the pay is shit, the kids are out of control, and teaching has become a less-respected profession in America than drug dealer, hitman or prostitute. Virtually nobody is going to get fallback government jobs either, because the public sector is now officially on life support since Tuesday night, and there is no hope for private-sector jobs in "sociology" or "art history." Heck, there are more private-sector jobs in Scientology than there are in sociology. Nobody with an art history degree is going to get a job cataloguing Dubya's dogs-playing-poker-in-the-Situation-Room paintings at the Bush Family Ranch. Which basically means they're not going to get a job, period. Other than sandwich "artist" at Subway.

Americans are so in love with reality TV and superhero movies anyway, that if the Library of Congress burned to the ground like the one in Alexandria, probably no one would notice unless it showed up in a tweet. Probably only a tiny fraction of people in this country would bat an eye if the Smithsonian lost all of its artifacts. On the other hand... did you see how many people rejoiced that someone found the stash of "E.T." Atari cartridges buried 30 years ago?