[Netherrealmer]

I was just saying I don't think it's fair to call it a scam.

You are saying that because you are from a first world country. College degree means no crap if you are in a developing country and the job pool is small to anyone not in stem field.

[cmoneyspinner]

I was just saying I don't think it's fair to call it a scam.

You are saying that because you are from a first world country. College degree means no crap if you are in a developing country and the job pool is small to anyone not in stem field.

Truthfully, I wish I had the Internet during my university days. I would have started blogging, affiliate marketing, and various online jobs to earn income, while working on my degree. But still. I won't talk down getting a college degree. If a person has the opportunity then they should go for it!

[Jem Smith]

I was just saying I don't think it's fair to call it a scam.

You are saying that because you are from a first world country. College degree means no crap if you are in a developing country and the job pool is small to anyone not in stem field.

Sure, I can only speak from my own experience. Here, lots of jobs require a degree. Not all jobs, and people can certainly be successful without one, it just depends what you want to do. And, like I said, there are reasons to go to uni besides just getting a job. Of course that depends on being able to afford to go, and what the job market is like where you are. It would have been clearer if you had said you meant not in first world countries, or just in your own own country.

[Netherrealmer]

You know majority of people here are from India, Phillippines, Africa and Pakistan and USA, countries with overpopulation and high poverty rate. Australia so underpopulated that there are more spiders and snakes than people. So of course the government can support people and the competition for employment is smaller.

[Jem Smith]

You know majority of people here are from India, Phillippines, Africa and Pakistan and USA, countries with overpopulation and high poverty rate. Australia so underpopulated that there are more spiders and snakes than people. So of course the government can support people and the competition for employment is smaller.

I don't tend to assume that things in the rest of the world are the same way they are in Australia, which is why if you look at my posts I keep saying things like "how it works here" and "where I live" and "in my experience". You tend towards sweeping statements as if you believe things are the same everywhere (or assume that everyone knows where you mean), so sometimes I question them.

I wasn't talking about the competition for employment being smaller (although our official unemployment rate is pretty low- that's a bit BS though since it doesn't count people who are underemployed or working as unpaid carers etc.). I was saying that some jobs require a degree here (and in a lot of places I would think). Different rules for different jobs.

-- 15 Jun 2023, 15:11 --

You know majority of people here are from India, Phillippines, Africa and Pakistan and USA, countries with overpopulation and high poverty rate. Australia so underpopulated that there are more spiders and snakes than people. So of course the government can support people and the competition for employment is smaller.

I don't tend to assume that things in the rest of the world are the same way they are in Australia, which is why if you look at my posts I keep saying things like "how it works here" and "where I live" and "in my experience". You tend towards sweeping statements as if you believe things are the same everywhere (or assume that everyone knows where you mean), so sometimes I question them.

I wasn't talking about the competition for employment being smaller (although our official unemployment rate is pretty low- that's a bit BS though since it doesn't count people who are underemployed or working as unpaid carers etc.). I was saying that some jobs require a degree here (and in a lot of places I would think). Different rules for different jobs.

Interesting that you said underpopulated, like we should have more people. I think to have a bigger population we'd need to get a lot better at using our available land efficiently to produce enough food. But I'm not a farmer, who knows.

-- 15 Jun 2023, 15:12 --

oops I stuffed up that post with an accidental post and now I can't edit it. Derp. Apologies.

[Fergal]

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