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[-] PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

While I agree in theory, I'm not really sure there's much that can be done in practice. The genie is out of the bottle here: jobs want the paper, so people get the paper, leading to jobs expecting people to have the paper. An employer is unlikely to deliberately "lower their standards" (in their view) if the pool of potential employees with a degree is large enough for their needs already. Since you can't legislate that employers are not allowed to require a degree, and you can't expect people to not get a degree and sacrifice their own potential future to break that cycle, we're kind of at an impasse.

That's why the only way forward that anyone's figured out so far is government funded higher education.

Edit:typos

this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2025
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