Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-174.22.192.132-20161104024309/@comment-25012056-20161203130632

Rocket Engineer wrote: Tbh, Obama made them suck even more.

Regarding free college, if something is for free, you value it less.if college is free then the value of degrees will go down. Which means that those with degrees can be paid less, which means that any benefit of getting said degree is lost. Best-case scenario, your skilled/educated workforce is flooded with mediocre candidates who didn't have to spend a dime on their education. Worst case scenario, you no longer have a skilled workforce because there's no point in having a degree anymore.

The thing is, there would still be the majority of universities left unchanged by this. ANY job that gives a liveable paycheck requires a degree at this point, and if a degree from your local community college is made free, it gives people that chance while still giving employers a selection of better workers: the people with diplomas from better schools. MIT, Yale, Harvard and the like would still be around and unaffected. Most colleges and universities would be unaffected. Saving up for college would still be a thing. It's just a chance for a better life.

At any rate, free college (it isn't free, but you know what I mean at this point) wouldn't affect much of anything for employers. Saying that everyone that can't afford college is an idiot with less skill isn't true. I know plenty of brilliant, extremely skilled people who don't have diplomas because they couldn't afford college. Conversely, there are plenty of rich idiots without a touch of skill who get their diplomas because they come from a rich family. You still have to sort through people to get the kind you want, free college or not. If someone is blind enough to only want people with diplomas and not look for actual skill, free college could benefit him/her by minimizing the impact on his business of his stupidity. Besides, college could always benefit those who are mediocre at the time with more education, making them more skilled. Everyone wins.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 13:06, December 3, 2016 (UTC)