Just realized the reason Boomers fall for this "go into the trades" bullshit is because they get quoted prices that seem insane to their "stuck in the 1960s prices" mindset and suddenly decide that it must mean everyone on a construction site is making bank, as if the reason the spics all live 6 to a bedroom and pile into the same van is because of convenience
Source is "
Educational Testing Service", so I dunno how accurate it is, but it looks, to me, that's accurate enough.
>liberal arts degrees require an IQ of 120
Get the fuck out of here. You really think African american studies degrees need an iq of 120, which is 99.9% higher than any african american? fuck you
They are addicted to drugs and alcohol, riddled with health problems in their late 20s, and often divorced. All over the country you can find working class towns like these sinking into despair and decay.
the trades is literally just stripping for men. "you can't get a degree and want to make a lot of money, just become a stripper, your body might get used up quick and you'll be in pain constantly but you'll make all the money!!!!!!"
Also like you said, there's a reason people go into the trades and much like stripping its either something their friends or family was into and they enjoyed or were forced into it because of the job market. I know a boomer family where only one of the 5 kids followed the dad into the trades, and while that guy was the most physically fit, he also had quite the temper and was the first to retire, and not by choice. the rest all got white collar jobs and got to be literally fat and happy. instead of retiring in the ghetto they retired in mansions in a gated community. If you ever wonder why Home Depot used to have so many old men who were experts in their department, its because they'd take these used up tradesmen and give them these retail jobs and they'd be happy to take them because their bodies couldn't do much more than 40 hours of just standing in a week.
This glorification of poverty, being poorly educated, and downward mobility is why the left controls all our institutions.
I honestly feel its more of a post-justification. plenty of people especially on the right forcing their C- kids to go to college and get loans out the ass and struggle when they know their kids couldn't handle it and either dropped out or got such useless degrees they might as well have. a degree in creative writing won't do you any good if you aren't networking and there aren't a lot of jobs for it in Missouri as it is, so their kid gets the same waitressing job that they could have had back in high school, only with way less experience and a lot more debt. People seem to forget that in the days of the boomers college was cheap enough that the people that wanted to go could, but plenty of them struggled enough in school that it didn't seem worth it. Its a reaction to the boomer meme of "everyone needs to go to college" and the fact that most people just aren't capable of completing college even when its piss easy and that the ROI on most non-STEM majors is shit unless you're a party animal and befriend the types that would get you an amazing job. Plenty of people i know that went to college only got their jobs through people they met there, the degree itself was not worth a dime though, but the boomers didn't know that because the idiot box didn't say it so they'd refuse to let their kids live in the dorms and commute instead and wonder why they don't have any connections to internships or jobs the rest of their classmen did.
In general the charisma stat is so broken in life that you're better off letting your kid watch andrew tate than do homework and hang out at the skate park vs study the books. The autisit who dedicated themselves to the books is going to have a much shittier life than the person that just partied all the time and had a great speaking voice. Of course anyone that isn't a retard already knew this, but as i said most boomers need the idiot box to blatantly say it to them. it doesn't matter if its the blatant theme of literally every popular 90s movie and art house 80s movie.
Blue collar America is not fucking ok.
You mean "the kid's aren't alright" by the offspring?
the Nazis were right about society just being in a holding pattern, the same stuff people were saying back in the 90s is intensified and more blatant now. Mind you i'm only saying the 90s because of my own generational bias, 70s society show blue collar america was rough as shit too, and most of the art about blue collar america is based on the lives of the writers from the 1960s, The tradesmen always got the short end of the stick.
However, I can also concede that I shouldn't let my own negative personal experience distract me from the big picture.
At minimum it should have given you a different perspective on life, thats worth more than anything. its crazy seeing boomers talking up learning and doing things i did when i was literally 19. How fucking ignorant could someone especially in New Jersey be to literally be 60+ and never have had italian food before.
and I asked her about scholarships
At least she was honest. I'd rather someone honestly give me bad news than vice versa, also not to be mean but its literally the exact opposite in non-male dominated professions, my cousin was dumb as shit, literally got held back in his inner city public school because of how dumb he was, but he got a full ride to become a nurse just because he had a cock. This was decades ago, but this guy who can't read subtitles fast enough to enjoy movies and needed to look up how babies were made while giving "the talk" to his kids was making 6 figures because he closed his eyes and picked "nursing" when choosing a career.
Meanwhile, women argued that the reason was that they were unable to afford colleg
