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I think it was around 15 years ago but definitely after the 2008 financial crisis that boomers just did a 180 and started telling White kids that college was stupid and they should learn a trade instead.

This is after spending the last 30 years preaching college as the only way you can get anywhere in life.

You're literally going to be working at Mcdonalds for the rest of your life if you don't go to college. Thats what they told us.

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The worst part is not wearing shitty clothes and living a shitty poorfag life. Its living shitty poorfag life while being surrounded by extreme extravagance and opulence from all sides. Historically it ended up with bourgeoisie on the chopping block.

@Marakus @Terry today they'd deliberately redesign their packaging to make it difficult or impossible to reuse
rember when yogurt used to come in a plastic tub with a reusable lid? well now it's got a single use foil top
cat litter used to come in buckets, now it's cardboard boxes and plastic jugs. can't be giving out buckets in case people reuse them instead of paying $10 for a brand new bucket.
walmart already makes their grocery bags so flimsy they get holes in them from holding a single loaf of bread for 10 minutes, how long before the other grocery chains catch on to the fact people reuse their bags to put in trash cans and they find a way to ruin that?
We'll still see another wave of college closings in the next few years.

I was taught that everyone needed college. Then I worked in higher ed and saw that most people don't. College is a scam to people from their money and drive them into perpetual debt.
@Marakus @Terry
I'm not American, but I can offer some advice: learn everything you think might be useful and divide your knowledge into two areas:
A) Modern highly skilled work: use your knowledge.
B) Traditional highly skilled/medium and low-skilled work: use all your skills and learn when practical office work exists, such as plumbing, electrical work, cleaning, repairs, agriculture, etc. In any crisis, it's best to know how to do everything; it's better to know how to survive and thrive in the face of the unknown. (Worst-case scenario)