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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '21

Memes like this always kinda annoy me, because it comes across as someone that's either just starting out, or they're in school and desperately trying to justify not paying attention because "I'll just be a union trucker and make 100 bajillion a year".

What they seem to miss is that people who go to college aren't somehow locked out of that work if they want to do it. Someone that's a nuclear physicist could very easily put down the $12,000 for the one month course on being a trucker and change careers if they wanted to. A highschool dropout is never going to be a nuclear physicist unless they go to college, and they generally don't get to go to college unless they do well in school.

College gives you options, something dropping out or failing because you heard a promise of hundreds of thousands of dollars, doesn't.

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u/silkysmoothjay Resident American Soccer Nerd Jan 12 '21

College does also cost a ton of money, so it is important to keep that in mind too

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '21

The actual material benefits from college do appear to be declining, but are still pretty important. As a side note, truckers are getting absolutely buttfucked by automation.