• @TPMJB
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    41 year ago

    It’s not minimum wage’s fault, it’s the government guaranteeing student loans. Tuition skyrocketed since then and has been out of control since.

    Then with so many people being told “You have to go to college so you don’t become a garbageman!” the requirements for most jobs increased as well. Manufacturing in pharma, for instance, I could take a kid out of middle school and teach him the job in an hour. Get fresh grads from college for a bachelor’s degree and they still need an hour of teaching. But now the Bachelors is required for some reason.

    Ironically, garbage man pays pretty decent for some minimal manual labor.

    • @blackbelt352
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      191 year ago

      Except that’s not the case. The GI bill alone (passed in 1944) put millions people through college who otherwise would not have had the opportunity to do so and did so for decades and the price didn’t skyrocket. Once deregulation happened the prices began to skyrocket.

    • @markr
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      161 year ago

      Student loans were guaranteed way back in boomer days too. So that would be a non-difference.