60% of Americans did not go to college.

[Guno צְבִי]

Interesting that people think the only purpose of education is job training.

They get confused with skills training verses education and the quest for knowledge

[anatta]

What we need is Biden and Congress to enact the same sort of labor laws and protections that exist in other developed nations. It really is sickening that most Americans can be fired for no reason with no warning, or that their salaries can be lowered with little or no warning.

I used to work in an Amazon warehouse. Literally everyday we had new people come in and people were fired for the most frivolous and unfair reasons. One coworker missed a day without calling in because her daughter was in a car crash. The daughter died later that night. Amazon fired her because she was a "no-call, no-show." She'd been there for two years and never missed a damn day. She was a hard worker who did her job and never complained. Another coworker was fired because his car wouldn't start (it was winter). Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos sells a $1 billion/yr in Amazon stocks to fund his space exploration hobby.

We need better laws in America to protect the little guy. It's really fucking disgusting how the Republicans fight the little guy.

well then Amazon is fucked up place to work. she never missed a day before?
do you realize how incredulous that sounds?
~~

I work 'at will' in an at will state. i excel at my sales position -so I bring in big money.
I hone my sales skill by un-paid training a bit- when I feel rusty, or new product scrips come out.
So my unpaid skills sessions development help me earn more.

If I were an average salesman,i'd bring in average money
and if I were a piss poor salesman, i'd get fired without warning (at will)
^all this is eminently logical and obvious performance based pay

~~

Biden wants to end Independent Contractors and make us all average/poorly paid wage slaves.
fuck that

[Bulletbob]

dont you get tired of being a moron?

Im just trying to catch up with you granted its hopeless to try

[anatta]

Interesting that people think the only purpose of education is job training.

if you are not born rich, for damn sure the most important reason is job training/skills acquisition

[T. A. Gardner]

Pretty much worldwide only about a third of humanity is really college material. The other two-thirds simply aren't. That's how it is. Maybe that's how it should be. College isn't the be-all, end-all of being successful. There are many other paths open and all of them share one trait: You apply yourself to what you love or what you can do well, you'll be compensated well for it.

“And uh, forget the money. Because, if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life wasting your time. You will be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is, in order to do things you don’t like doing, which is stupid. Better to have a short life that is full of things you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.”

Alan Watts

[Hawkeye10]

That's baby boomers that did that. Gen x to some extent

We fucked up the raising of kids as we fucked up almost everything else....to a very large degree through lack of effort.

Just look at where America is.

[katzgar]

Im just trying to catch up with you granted its hopeless to try

dont bother your need to be a moron is too deeply ingrained

[Arks&sparka]

We fucked up the raising of kids as we fucked up almost everything else....to a very large degree through lack of effort.

Just look at where America is.

I think we're really better off than most people give us credit for. It's just this stupid people seem to get a lot of attention, mostly because they're so stupid.

[Arks&sparka]

if you are not born rich, for damn sure the most important reason is job training/skills acquisition

I don't think I'll ever understand people that just go to college for the fun of it. If you want to learn stuff just to know it, you can just buy the books. It's way cheaper

[BidenPresident]

I don't think I'll ever understand people that just go to college for the fun of it. If you want to learn stuff just to know it, you can just buy the books. It's way cheaper

I never heard of anyone who went to college just for fun.

[Bulletbob]

dont bother your need to be a moron is too deeply ingrained

I couldn't catch up to your level of stupidity if you died today and I live another 200 years

[Arks&sparka]

I never heard of anyone who went to college just for fun.

If it's not for a career, what else would it be?

[Arks&sparka]

They get confused with skills training verses education and the quest for knowledge

You can gain knowledge without becoming a debt slave.

[Guno צְבִי]

[Walt]

THe great hope is the we can find enough minds that have not been hopelessly warped by the Failed Universities to save America.

I wonder who has a better chance of designing a self driving car, a high school dropout, or a team of people with masters and PHD degrees from "failed universities"? A question for the ages.