**** Elections thread *****

[JKDS]

You're right that college is being treated as a credential over education.

But the majority of millenials aren't learning outside of college. They sit at home smoking hookah, playing videogames, or going to bars. But few have a book on "stock trading" or are becoming seriously multilingual, or learning to code.

Granted, some are doing that. But it's only some. Is this how it's always been? A small minority actually becoming skilled in something? Maybe. Feels different though.

[wufwugy]

You're right that college is being treated as a credential over education.

But the majority of millenials aren't learning outside of college. They sit at home smoking hookah, playing videogames, or going to bars. But few have a book on "stock trading" or are becoming seriously multilingual, or learning to code.

Granted, some are doing that. But it's only some. Is this how it's always been? A small minority actually becoming skilled in something? Maybe. Feels different though.

that's true.

it probably is different, but i dont think it will always be different. it is true that right now we live in a society that rewards immature and unproductive behavior more than it should. i think it's a mistake to underestimate the role of the incentives created by government policy in constructing this culture. elementary education of millennials was dramatically different than previous generations. we were taught to be entitled bitches, and it all pretty much came through a nationalized bureaucratically imagined system. previous generations were taught significantly different things (and by different people) than we were.