It’s pretty easy to say shit like this when you’re largely on a tax payer funded vacation for most of the year. Also, countries with the best student aid systems are the ones where it’s tuition free, universities are funded properly by the government, and students are not forced to take crazy loans to cover their education. What Ford is doing is the anti thesis of that, and it’s backwards, and out of touch with what actually works in reality. Definitely, not evidence-based politics.
BeaverBoyBaxter on
Interesting coming from a guy who dropped out of college to work at his dad’s company and later be made president of said company.
Sad_Imagination6012 on
The college dropout has thoughts about which courses students should take after strangling the education system for 7 years with tuition freezes and funding cuts. 😒
jollyadvocate on
Kids can’t predict the future to see what degrees will have value. Everyone said to go into computer science and now apparently those degrees will be worthless with AI. Conversely, some humanities degrees are associated with a significant boost to life time earnings e.g. philosophy.
PotentialRise7587 on
The labour market is notoriously fickle. It’s not a personal failing if someone studied computer programming or graphic design five years ago and is getting killed by AI
Theseactuallydo on
The only thing worse than hearing this sort of advice from a nepobaby like Ford is knowing how many blue collar people will nod along, thinking that this is punishing “woke people”, without realizing it’s *their own* kids who will suffer the most from these kinds of policies.
zachem62 on
He inherited a multi-million-dollar label empire built by his dad, ran it into the ground while paying himself a fat salary, and still calls it ‘hard work.’ He is the textbook definition of someone born with a silver spoon.
EducatedSkeptic on
No problem, Douggie. Which is the job of the ‘future’ I should focus on?
You mentioned health care, but you are cutting funding there too.
Macqt on
I wonder what he considers “basket weaving” to be? Obviously it’s not STEM, medicine, or law. I’m assuming fields like social work, ECE, and psychology aren’t lumped in there either.
At the university level I’m guessing he means gender studies, education, humanities/anthropology, etc. At the college level basically all of them at this point (except ones related to those above or skilled trades) given how worthless many of the diplomas and schools have become.
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It’s pretty easy to say shit like this when you’re largely on a tax payer funded vacation for most of the year. Also, countries with the best student aid systems are the ones where it’s tuition free, universities are funded properly by the government, and students are not forced to take crazy loans to cover their education. What Ford is doing is the anti thesis of that, and it’s backwards, and out of touch with what actually works in reality. Definitely, not evidence-based politics.
Interesting coming from a guy who dropped out of college to work at his dad’s company and later be made president of said company.
The college dropout has thoughts about which courses students should take after strangling the education system for 7 years with tuition freezes and funding cuts. 😒
Kids can’t predict the future to see what degrees will have value. Everyone said to go into computer science and now apparently those degrees will be worthless with AI. Conversely, some humanities degrees are associated with a significant boost to life time earnings e.g. philosophy.
The labour market is notoriously fickle. It’s not a personal failing if someone studied computer programming or graphic design five years ago and is getting killed by AI
The only thing worse than hearing this sort of advice from a nepobaby like Ford is knowing how many blue collar people will nod along, thinking that this is punishing “woke people”, without realizing it’s *their own* kids who will suffer the most from these kinds of policies.
He inherited a multi-million-dollar label empire built by his dad, ran it into the ground while paying himself a fat salary, and still calls it ‘hard work.’ He is the textbook definition of someone born with a silver spoon.
No problem, Douggie. Which is the job of the ‘future’ I should focus on?
You mentioned health care, but you are cutting funding there too.
I wonder what he considers “basket weaving” to be? Obviously it’s not STEM, medicine, or law. I’m assuming fields like social work, ECE, and psychology aren’t lumped in there either.
At the university level I’m guessing he means gender studies, education, humanities/anthropology, etc. At the college level basically all of them at this point (except ones related to those above or skilled trades) given how worthless many of the diplomas and schools have become.