Today, I posted my last article on Everyjoe. Cutbacks at Defy media led to the downsizing of the website (now it'll basically just be news reposts and boob-oriented clickbait), and all the actual columnists were let go, including yours truly.
So this is the end for now. And I decided to go out like I started: Alexander Macris hired me on because of an article I wrote on this blog about the flaws of the College system in the 21st century, and I decided to finish off on a very similar subject.
When you have 84000 graduates a year in a field that no longer needs you to have a degree, and when you have so many out of work graduates that effectively one needs a Bachelors' Degree to work minimum wage at a shoe store, something has got to give. What needs to happen is for the College Bubble to burst, but instead, the "Free Tuition" movement is pushing the equivalent of "Too Big To Fail" as a way to keep the whole scam going a bit longer.
So, please go check it out, and retweet it and share it and all the rest.
Also, if you happen to read this and are interested in hiring me to write (about politics, culture, religion, gaming, history, or almost anything else), please get in touch!
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So true, on both points. I read a good solution. First how we got here. No one wants to admit this since it means Clinton bashing. However, facts are.... Bill agreed with the banks that students could no longer declare bankruptcy on eduction costs which they could not get a job from. When this happen the costs shot up. I invite anyone to check this correlation out.
ReplyDeleteSolution? Let students declare bankruptcy on education debt f they cannot find work. Hey, universities promised an education in woman of Africa studies would get them a job. So let students sue the schools. Pretty quick the schools would reform themselves. Of course the war we would se of professors who teach programs you cannot get work with would be a nughtmare. Since schools, interest groups, and politicians care about their jobs. Not students jobs. All about money. Glad I have a job. I would hate to be ten years old today with today's prospects for work.
But the thing is colleges don't promise you can get a job from African Studies or Engineering or anything else. They don't need to, because students have already been fed the fantasy that "you can do anything you dream to do" by everyone around them for the last 18 years.
DeleteThe bigger problem isn't with the colleges, it's with the culture. The colleges have just become a fucked up monopoly because of the culture.
The market at work, ladies and gentlemen. The market at work.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'll be fine. Thankfully I'm not a left-wing journalist. Vice, Salon, Gawker, Jezebel, pretty well every Regressive-left-wing news site around has just had massive cutbacks. The market at work, indeed.
DeleteSo what your saying is that at a time of industry wide down turn, Vice, Salon, Gawker, Jezebel, ect all can still manage to support some writers, but Everyjoe can't.
ReplyDeleteI guess they either were much more popular to begin with, or haven't lost readership as quickly.
In other news, Pundit fails at logic once again.
Well yeah, EJ was always small by news-website standards. Everyone knows that. On the other hand, the major right-wing news sites like the Federalist, Rare, Reason, the Rebel, and especially Breitbart are all doing from fairly to very well. On the other other hand, the left-wing sites are named are all the major left-wing sites, only Huffpo seems to still be doing slightly well on the left, and they largely don't pay their writers.
DeleteI read 85% of online advertising is going to Google and Facebook. So, left wing journos will always have a place to work and get their message out (likely to be written by journos from developing nations). My dad was a united prof, retired now. He felt a big problem was that courses weren't easily transferable between uni's. Uni's want a majority if classes bought off if them. Not exactly holding up their line and social contract that it's about education. It's crazy the job requirement now. An elementary school guidance councilor in BC, Canada, req a doctorate degree. Wow.
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