We should go to college for free if we choose to and also be able to afford a house regardless of our employment type I agree.

Reasons for going to college....

Our president sucks balls in every way possible and you would like to be president and do good via the knowledge gained.

You would like to design spacecraft.

You would like to give others brain surgeries with successful outcomes.

Your bus in never on time and you would like to fix that or have a say in the reasons why a bus might be late.

You like cheese and would like to discover new types of cheese via biology and chemistry. Oh shit, you accidentally invented antigravity, there goes your cheese.

You dont have to go to college to afford a house by 30.

Land owning isn't meant to be for serfs lol.

I had a friend from Germany who mentioned once that owning property there is very rare for most people unless they're from very old conservative generational wealth. He said that houses and property often end up passed down in the same families over and over. He was well educated and happy with his career, but he never had any kind of expectation he would get to own property at some point in his life.

Not sure where you're from, but it kind of feels like the U.S. is becoming more and more like that. Except, we also don't get healthcare, and to even get the privilege of an education people are increasingly having to take on a level of debt that one would expect to take on as an investment in property even though there is no guarantee your investment will pay off. It's concerning though, that when this is pointed out to people, it's often cited as a reason you just shouldn't bother with college.

Owning private property is becoming more and more a privilege reserved for only the elite, not an expectation or "entitlement." Ok, well that kind of sucks, but I guess you don't have to own property to have a decent life.

But, then it's clear we're supposed to accept that healthcare is somehow also becoming a privilege reserved for the elite and not an expectation or "entitlement?"

And, we're hearing conservatives, often from backgrounds of generational wealth, talk more and more about abolishing the department of education. So, that means that soon we could be expected to view education of any kind (not just college) as something we're not "entitled" to.

It's also clear that many of the people creating these policies, and encouraging other people not to waste their time on worthless college degrees, were born into lives where our "entitlements" are simply their default expectations.

However, when they address their voters, it's always the "entitled" and the "educated elites," who are somehow responsible for their hardships, the overall decline in their quality of life, and the lack of opportunities and resources that have gradually become the default expectation for most Americans.

The "entitled" takers who want to be handed what can only be obtained through hard work and sacrifice that will pay off as long as you really try. And if it doesn't, you shouldn't start asking questions of "why," like those educated elites, you should just accept that you must have done something, that those who have what you don't, would have done differently, in order to rise to the top.

I'm smart enough to know that the reason I don't own property and probably never will, isn't because I haven't tightened my belt enough, or pulled myself up by my bootstraps, or because of my worthless college degree that has brainwashed me into believing I'm entitled to something I'm not.

Neither of my parents went to college, yet they were always told the same bullshit when they asked too many questions about why the game always felt so rigged no matter how hard you tried.

I didn't go to college and I bought a house at 30

This is why we need tiny houses, trailer homes, etc! We also need to get rid of these real estate corporations that are manipulating the prices of everything we need to live with, especially housing!!! :-(

Yeah.

Honestly, I'm just avoiding having kids and hope we don't start killing each other for food and water by the time I die.

At least 3 years of only saving my pay to afford a shack. Still better than what Americans get.

Let's all spend time learning about construction and planning and build our own housing!

you guys are getting houses?

going to college isnt a guaranteed anymore, at least not in the last 10years. unless your in tech,starting at 22yo yea you would be able to, but only if you did in the last 10years. maybe engineering, other stems not so much, let alone a job in that field entry level. most universities have very little resources devoted to lab work which are usually exclusively limited to specific PI of those schools, and they have thier own requirements. gatekeeped jobs for many stem fields, higher degree requirement despite what the job listing says, and the same goes for experience, honestly its mostly nepo hiring for half of the jobs anyways. Maybe NURSING, especially if you are going as a travllening nursing. MS/PHD puts you into too much financial hole. MD/LAWYer, well off people can afford it , because thier parents are usally well off to do it. hence why alot of mds and lawyers are often coming from wealthy families.

as most lower tier schools either dont spend resources or dont have any dedicated to developing peoples career track in the form lab/volunteer work.

I had a house before 30. It was okay I guess. Sold due to divorce, now I rent again. I'd love to own another house but not the glorified trailer I had before