Man it’s all overplayed.
Trades largely aren’t as good as the anti college crowd portrays. College degrees at times aren’t as good as the pro college crowd portrays.
Statistically college graduates earn more, and have a better way of life. That’s just the general nature of it. And if you live in unpopulated areas, you better have a degree or the chances are you’ll end up in a plant environment, construction, or Walmart. It’s easier to skip the degree in a large city, but still, you aren’t likely to climb very high.
Just because there are a few success stories away from educated people, doesn’t mean there aren’t far more on the other side. For every Bill Gates there are 1,000 like him that began with their degree.
I have friends that went to Votech for heating/ air and welding which are currently working at a plant in my hometown. They’d kill for my degrees.
It is different strokes for different folks, but we are going overboard on the rhetoric.
And as a right winger (not sure what you are), we need to stop pushing everyone away from the University system. That’s why we have no representation and that’s not a good thing (even liberal professors will tell you it’s not a good thing) I think there’s a push on the right designed to steer people away from the University setting in order to avoid brainwashing which won’t happen
They push such a radical view in areas of colleges that no real conservative thinker (normal) could ever embrace it. Just look at CRT, that was born from the University setting in social sciences. And no sane person is buying it.
If we continue to go down this road, you won’t have conservative professors, political figures in Washington, journalist, or other avenues like mental wellness. Then you can guarantee the right loses everything somewhere down the line.
In short, we need to care more than just business school and socket sets. We are so underrepresented everywhere because of the anti-college mindset.