Billionaire says: "Why not become a plumber instead of going to college?"

[Prophet 451]

102. There's two things to say here

1) The world needs plumbers. And other tradespeople. Someone has to keep the lights turned on while us academics contemplate our navels.

2) This is part of the PtB's agenda. The endgame for the monied elite has always been to have a populace poor and desperate enough that they'll work for pennies, or a meal, or a dosshouse bed for the night. Forget selling to Americans, they'll sell to the much bigger Asian markets. The object with Americans (and the British, thanks to the bastard scum Tories) is to eliminate all wage controls, all regulation on business and do away with all welfare and Social Security. Keep the drones desperate and if you won't work for tuppence a day, fuck you, there's plenty desperate enough to take it. Why did I go on this rant? Because part of this aim is that the worker drones don't need any more than basic literacy and numeracy. They want to turn higher education back into the preserve of the rich. That's why college tuition has been allowed to spiral upwards to such a degree (and the bs Tories here tripled the upper limit on tuition costs).