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It's incredible that a person as intelligent as you are, is not given a platform. Oh, wait. You are pro-palestine. xD I guess that's why. Keep on keeping on, you are the best! We are your platform.
“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.”
College doesn't just change your mind because of what you study; the best thing about college for me was meeting and getting to know so many people who came from different ways of life and had totally different perspectives. That seems to be another reason some people deride higher education.
It’s almost like the people in power secretly want to destroy what makes a democracy or a republic because they are addicted to power. Our founding fathers are rolling in their graves for this.
Well it's not necessarily true that college changes minds. It does happen! But much more often than not, progressive students leave college more progressive while conservative students leave college more conservative.
More than meeting people and being exposed to other cultures, religions, and social norms, it's the ability to engage respectfully with people. My 4 year university degree isn't something I apply in my everyday work (I finished up at a technical college after obtaining my degree), but it gave me vital skills in areas that average citizens don't use on a daily basis: critical thinking skills, the ability to comprehend complex problems and finding solutions to solve them, the practiced skill of reading and researching nuanced subjects, and the ability to formulate your own position and test it through group critique, debate, and defending it publicly in person. College campuses are supposed to be fostering these concepts first and foremost, not feeding their students pablum by rote, or as the right wingers fear, teach their students to become "woke". Colleges and universities are supposed to be the safe bastions of experimenting with political thought, anthropological studies, historical analysis, and provide us all with a plurality of ideas and perspectives, before they get tested in a "real world" setting. And that's why you have private companies, think tanks, and special interest groups putting their hand on the scales trying to steer graduates toward what they know to be safe aka profitable. You can achieve new technologies or write dissertations on foreign policy or banking derivative investments, provided that it remains sympathetic to their desired outcomes. Once you start expressing differing plans for when you enter the work force, or worse, you plan to change institutions from within in order to correct the mistakes of the past, that's when you are met with external resistance and organized force.
@@AuntieHauntieGames As a former conservative who went to college and came out progressive, I disagree. I believe a lot of people follow the same trajectory as me, because when you're raised in a bubble and suddenly go out into the real world and discover all these people and ideas you were taught to be afraid of are actually not that bad, you tend to change your views. That's why conservatives hate college WAY more than liberals. Why do you think they're always going on about universities brainwashing kids and turning them "woke"?
But... the people you are meeting there are out of their parent's homes for the first time ever... They do not have important connections to help you. They do not have life experience or wisdom. If they have ANY wealth, it is their parents. The only thing you get exposed to in college is the indoctrination other children experienced. It's babies raising other babies.
In high school, I read the autobiography of Fredrick Douglass, a former slave and famed Abolitionist. The chapter that stood out to me the most was his explanation of his education. Originally, one of his owners did give him and his fellow slaves an education, but her husband stopped her from doing that. Douglass himself got hooked, and he found ways to get books to continue his education on his own in secret. It was during this education that he realized the most important thing: slaves were kept uneducated because then they could never question or realize that how they were being treated was wrong. When the slaves were only taught to be obedient and take their punishment with no other reference or means of questioning, then they couldn't break free. This was a man who escaped literal slavery as a teenager in the 1800s, and he knew the exact playbook that continues today
My parents always talked about how affordable college was for them, and how part time jobs paid their tuition. It has always sounded like a sick fantastical joke to me, affordable higher education that was just a generation before my time. I've hated everything I've learned about Ronald Reagan, but dismantling free education? Fucking heinous. I may have some bitter feelings about the struggle I went through to get my degree through the UC system, but thankfully most of my frustration was just with my comp sci degree being inexplicably useless. Peaceful protest turned police shootings were something I am so relieved to have dodged.
My father was able to pay for his education at a private Catholic university in the 1950s by working a part time job. That same university is now over 50K a year.
@@Jennifer-my5dmand these are the same group of people calling us young people lazy, and saying we have it better than they ever did. They're delusional.
@@gokuformanvsfood Are you Gen? I'm a Gen X-er, and I think most of you are pretty awesome. I don't think you're lazy. The handful of Gen Z-ers I've worked with have been hard working, smart, and respectful. I refuse to treat Gen Z as poorly as Gen X was.
You can't say anything bad about Blessed Saint Ronnie! I mean sure, he pushed trickle down economics that shredded the middle class, didn't realize until he saw The Day After that Americans would die in a nuclear war, and got a bunch of Marines killed in a useless show of strength, and so many other fiascos.
Another aspect of how the higher education system is being systematically destroyed is the exploitation of adjunct professors. It used to be that adjuncts made up only about 20-30% of all college faculty in the 1970s. Nowadays, about 70-80% of instructors hired at colleges are adjunct professors, who are paid pittance salaries and are given no benefits, yet are expected to teach most of the core classes that all incoming freshman have to take. Adjuncts are often forced to take multiple jobs just to survive, which means they are massively overworked, which means that students are not getting the quality education they deserve despite paying increasingly exorbitant tuition fees. Meanwhile the administrators at the top are making six-figure salaries for doing far less work. Call me crazy, but maybe colleges shouldn't be structured the same as a greedy corporation.
Adjuncts are also rated by the students they teach every year. If the ratings are bad they don't get hired back for another semester. It's not in an adjuncts best interest to make their students unhappy, which leads to grade inflation.
"Six figure salaries" doesn't mean anything anymore. If you live in an average city and you're not making 100k you're in a permanent renting underclass. These days a nice Camry costs 40k. With taxes and interest the monthly payment is $1k for 48 months. Someone making a teaching adjunct salary can't even buy a CAMRY.
@@andiskene7346Now that is entirely full circle back to the typical legacy that occupied college campuses prior to the GI Bill, as well as why the “gentleman’s C” was invented… No matter how much elites keep claiming hierarchy and who your father is matters, their sons and daughters keep proving them wrong by accident.
You have highlighted a very interesting part of the story! There are several reasons why adjunct professors are considered better for higher education. The most important reason is that it is easier to manipulate them, and they are significantly cheaper. It's not just the government that takes money from universities; the truth is that higher education has really become too expensive to maintain in its current form. Adjunct professors are just one of the sources that help keep it working... but in the end, we are getting grade inflation and other problems
@@dangerousdays2052 Agreed. I think he just realized there's no way to become president without corporate backing. Corporate campaign contributions are just bribes
The problem is the federal government got involved. It backed student loans, BUT it also made it impossible to discharge a loan in bankruptcy. Basically, it was “free money” to the colleges. Not everyone went to college. But, that “free college” came with a catch. Those with high grades in high school got accepted to college. Graduate with straight “D’s?” You went to Vietnam.
@@HVACSoldierRight, so the schools became bloated overpriced bureaucracies because they could charge higher and higher prices. So we get lots of useless graduates in sociology, gender studies, and political science. They graduate and find out their $80k degree gets them a job at Starbucks. But this is all Reagan's fault according to Adam.
@@HVACSoldierway to ignore 2 important things; a draft and the fact trade jobs exist 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 college is sold to many people as something is not, a guarantee of a job
What the hell is the appeal of inviting a celebrity that's not graduating with you to make a speech about a struggle they'll never understand? There's no way these celebrities do it for free, so it's an extra expense that contributes to higher tuition and higher student debt.
@@robertbrown2706recruiting specific people who know the celebrity and thus might think alike. quite an obvious psy op to filter and recruit only the people you want, yes men and women who wont question anything
@@robertbrown2706 ...exactly right. same idea behind activities & sports teams & flashy stuff on campuses; it's to build up a brand image, for it's investors. basically, they've become companies, not schools.
@@robertbrown2706 Exactly. Reject televised graduations. Reject distribution of the recordings outside of people that were invited to attend. That day is about YOU and the staff that taught you. Not a darn thing else.
I'm British. My parents were students in the 1980s and marched with CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament). They were on a peaceful protest in Birmingham when they walked round a corner and realised the police were waiting and ambushing the protesters, throwing them into vans and beating them. My parents dumped their placards and zipped their jackets up over their badges, and they snuck past. It really saddens me that students in the US are still dealing with this bull. 40 years later, and I can't honestly say the UK is doing any better either.
My father was a founding member of the Nuclear Disarmament movement when he was a professor in college. You can bet he was on an FBI watchlist, for arguing for peace.
Two time Kent State grad here. Here’s my issue: after we leave the classroom, students are scattered to the wind. There’s power in numbers and organizing, so when we go from a community of likeminded adults attending regularly scheduled meetings into the “real world,” we feel that much more alone, disillusioned, and unsure of how to proceed with making the sort of change we were working toward
I understand how you feel. Depending where you live, there should be a political party, NGO, activist group, labor union, etc., where you can meet like-minded people and learn how to organize outside of a college context
Internet communities help a lot with that, at least at feeling connected and in touch. Even if it’s just a community surrounding a hobby or a fandom. Same goes for volunteering in your local community or joining a club of some sort. It’s not as fun as college socializing, but it’s real life now with people of different ages and incomes (hopefully). I mean, you don’t really have an administration to protest against anymore either
I feel like that’s on purpose. We have almost no sense of community, at least in the US, bar some solidarity of minorities, occasionally family, and chosen family. We don’t have places to go, are forced to work so much so we don’t have time, energy, or money to do so, etc.m
@@Porpentein Plus disabled people who are less likely to be represented in college populations and work populations due to ableism in academia and hiring practices.
Honestly this is nothing new. University students were always hated. They are educated enough to understand what is wrong and young and optimistic enough to want to fight to change it.
College can challenge and change your world view and force to interact with people and culture who are form different place unlike high-school where it usually most people are from the same neighborhood also for certain education like art and engineering you might have to leave you neighborhood and live in another state because it more specialized
@@HypaSnypa12 you don't need to be intelligent in the old sense of the word to aquire good critical thinking skills and be informed about the state of the world. Both can be aquired by education. If you use the new sense of the word, educated people are more intelligent because they have invested in skills that allow them to gather information, assess the reliability of the information, analyse different schools of thought on a topic and then come to a well belanced conclusion they can defend.
I strongly believe in higher education, but USA colleges and universities have become more like loan shark enterprises than places of learning. And it’s not an accident. It makes education less accessible, upward social mobility less obtainable, and a populace more malleable. It’s also abhorrent to antagonize students who are exercising their first amendment right via peacefully protesting. Their money is supposed to be going towards their education, not a war.
thank you for the praise for the humanities and social sciences. it is so agonizing to constantly hear these fields being sh*t on by mainstream media, boomers/gen xers, and so many other people, particularly those who dont even have a college degree at all. like wtf do u even know if u never even took one of these classes???? my major was sociology and anthropology, and i feel studying them has literally radically changed my worldview not just on politics, but also humanity as a whole, my perspective on life, other people, philosophy, history, science, everything. i went from having the view that everyone is inherently selfish to a view where everyone is actually inherently altruistic. i have more faith in our potential as humans on earth, more ambition, more confidence and less fear about the unknown. these fields being associated with buzzwordy performative activist ideas and "useless" nonpractical info is just because our capitalist system makes us think that capitalism is the default "normal" and "best" system and our worldviews are "just the way things are". they dont want us to know anything about these fields yet for some reason, colleges teach them. so they make college unaffordable so that only those with financial access can learn about these fields which means the average person is more likely going to demonize or make fun of what they dont know. but i think everyone should study these fields to some extent. and come to your own conclusions about what theyre about. which means higher ed needs to be more accessible. and i think everyone knows how valuable it is, they just soak up the propaganda and develop cognitive dissonance.
As a social sciences grad, my impression was always that the humanities and social sciences 1) are usually dealing with the intangible, and a lot of people seem to have a hard time with abstract concepts, and 2) aren't as obviously linked to a profitable career, which makes them "useless" under capitalism, and I probably don't have to tell you how the capitalistic drive for money above all else rots people's brains.
It's always the humanities that suffers first under creeping authoritarianism. We have come to the point where any subject that doesn't enhance shareholder portfolio is considered useless, and humanities falls under that.
It's also like "oh no, this class calls out racism and slaveowners, class divides, and just in general explains history as it actually happened! We can't have that, our ancestors were racists, slaveowners, rich people, and don't look good in their history yearbook!" They just play classes teaching truth as being an "attack" on American values or on their party, in part because they say they're against racism in front of major news outlets, but then go on racist tirades at a RNC meeting, on their private facebook group, at a major PAC, up to an including how "phony schools aren't teaching correctly when they say Hitler was a bad guy with bad ideas."
@@TheCaptainSlappy The population in general is mostly lawful. Does that mean you condone a police state and random police raids since people are only "mostly lawful"?
In a war between the rich and the poor, the rich have somehow convinced millions of the poorest Americans that a billionaire will be their champion. This fact alone makes it extraordinarily difficult to maintain any sort of hope for the future of the working class in America.
It's why they want to keep people ignorant. It allows them to spin a web of lies and when people lack the ability and discipline to distill the truth for themselves, they tend to value the convenience of the lie over the truth. What makes it worse is when well educated people, whether wealthy or looking to use their knowledge to exploit others, attempt to give these argument validity. As for why they'd choose to look to billionaires for salvation, it's because they see wealthy people as the embodiment of the success they seek, and naively believe that they will help bring them wealth as well, after all they are successful themselves. Of course, anyone with half a brain, forget a good education, can see that their wealth and success comes from exploitation, and they have no intention of helping others. But again, it's more convenient to believe the lie than to accept the truth.
@@deelee4639 Right... because it's not like the Boomers or GenX ever complained about social issues when THEY were in their 20s, and look how fair they setup the board now. But sure Gen Alpha totally gonna revolt....by complaining online while they ALSO willfully bend over backwards to objectify themselves for social media. Big Revolution coming....I bet pop up ads will be completely stopped on their tracks by entitled masses who have zero capacity for strategy.
I’ll finally abandon hope on the working class when the Democrats actually start doing something to help the working class and they still reject it to follow their culture war grievances. The Democrats abandoning labor in the 80s was the original push down the slippery slope into facism that we are currently tumbling down.
They highlight those things to attract students (money!), but At the end of the day they still must conform to the capitalist status quo. Can’t have people trying to fight for justice that would threaten their hegemony
This is important context to know when Democrat administrations move to forgive student loan debt. It's not "Socialism". Higher education was _supposed_ to be free. That money was stolen from you. Forgiving some of that debt is a spineless compromise when in reality they should be pushing to make it free again, like it's supposed to be.
@@Jrpyify Back when it was free, only the smartest individuals got into UC-Berkeley. It’s not like everyone who graduated from high school in California was eligible to enroll into college. I’m sure even some of the smartest individuals that applied for student deferments were denied.
@@HVACSoldier then you make more schools. I don’t see how you people don’t think about all this. More then enough money in tuition has been paid the govt should foot that entire bill
@@Valvad0ss It’s not as simple as that. 1) Back when it was “free,” it wasn’t entirely free. Only the tuition was free. You still had room, board, and student fees. 2) California developed its “Master Plan” in 1960. “That some form of higher education ought to be available to all regardless of their economic means, and that academic progress should be limited only by individual proficiency; and differentiation of function so that each of the three systems would strive for excellence in different areas, so as to not waste public resources on duplicate efforts.” It basically said “IF you were smart enough to learn more, the state would pay your tuition at a state run (PUBLIC) university.” “According to the Plan, the top one-eighth (12.5%) of graduating high school seniors would be guaranteed a place at a campus of the University of California tuition-free. The top one-third (33.3%) would be able to enter the California State University system. Junior colleges (later renamed "community colleges" in 1967) would accept any students "capable of benefiting from instruction."[11] These percentages are now enforced by sliding scales equating grade point average and scores on the SAT or ACT, which are recalculated every year. No actual ranking of students in high schools is used as many schools do not rank students.” 3) It’s COMPLICATED, and Adam Conover could probably find a better source that would tell him the same thing. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Master_Plan_for_Higher_Education
@@HVACSoldier Yeah, but that's the difference between the plan and what is actually happening on the ground. You can list off Hiter's plans yet none materialized. So the whole argument you brought up is stupid. I suggest you take a look look at the real events and find a better source, like I don't know, the fucking video above?
Some things simply cannot and should not be for-profit. Education, healthcare, and journalism among them. These things can be neither unbiased nor efficient when they have billionaires and middlemen trying to squeeze money out them at every opportunity.
But…but providing common sense things like this would be….SOCIALISM. And we’re supposed to be afraid of that word Just the word though. There’s plenty of socialism…for the rich.
I do hate the constant rhetoric about how people don't want "their" money paying for other people's loans, when in reality, more of their money is going to other government departments (military) and other scams than it ever did to supporting fellow Americans in general.
Reminds me of how regressives freaked out when they thought that Obamacare was Universal Healthcare becuz they didn't want their money going to help poor people. 🥴🥴
Your numbers are way off. The vast majority of taxes go to public spending. Far more than to the military. This is not really debatable. The numbers are easy to find.
People gaining critical thinking skills and criticizing the systems they’re subjected to, will always get backlash. My advice to college students: NEVER STOP. You’re literally going to inherit this society. Make it into one that works for everyone. ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻
As someone who graduated from high school this year, it’s been really depressing to see how many of my friends have had to turn down acceptance letters from really good universities because they wouldn’t be able to afford the tuition.
If you don't want kids to go to college unless they can pay cash, you do not want poor people to get power and decision-making jobs. We need doctors, lawyers, politicians and other college degrees needing jobs held by people that were poor for perspective and equity.
College administration today exists to take power away from college faculty while also being a human slush fund to absorb the massive piles of money colleges take in(as long as they serve the interests of the rich)
Going to college for me was like a full time job I had to pay for, rather than a job that paid me. The financial stress ruined the whole experience. Tuition is so high that scholarships don't cover the cost anymore.
@@GenerationX1984 Boomers faced the threat of nuclear attack on a daily basis. Your generation's greatest fear seems to be being miss-gendered. By the way we were not given low tuition. We paid it. And we did not get the lazy rivers and safe spaces college students insist on now.
@@glennwatson3313 "is a full time job" + "not supposed to pay you" what occupies your skull bc it cannot be a brain. Incredible. Do you drive a car? You're allowed to vote? And it counts just as much as anyone else huh? What a world
High school teacher here. I make a point to make it clear that community college and trade school are dope options. Ronald Reagan fucked over my generation, I'm not gonna let him fuck over theirs.
Unfortunately, the opportunities offered at community colleges are so limited and cookie cutter, that there are very few programs that interest people enough to see them through to graduation. I went to community college and a lot of people don’t want generic jobs like electrician, CNA, plumber, cop, lawyer, architect, PSA, social worker, etc… almost nothing interesting, cutting edge, specialized, or unique is offered at community schools. In fact, community college seemed to stress conformity above all other values. Then the cherry on top, couldn’t even transfer most of my community college credits to a REAL college with REAL programs that specialize in an extremely wide array of programs that pay out 6 figures after graduation, give you the tools to make real change in your field of interest, and actually feed your curiosity and life-purpose. Community college is mostly just a profit scheme used to fleece people that can’t afford university. It costs you tons of time and therefore money and you will see virtually no pay bump after graduating from community college. There is no community college degree that will provide you a higher paying job besides a criminal justice degree and becoming a cop, which brings us full-circle to that community college is mostly a statist scam that is used to reinforce the ruling class in every community across the country. There is basically no degree from community college that will pay you more than being a manager at a restaurant, working in a factory, a small business, or virtually any manual labor job. You also don’t need community college to enter the trades… and never did, you can apprentice for a year or two and get certified all the while you get paid to learn… unlike community college which will fleece you of your time and money for nothing of real value in return. All that college to make $16-24 an hour… just no… I wish community college was the answer, but it’s just another layer of the scam.
Unfortunately, the opportunities offered at community colleges are so limited and cookie cutter, that there are very few programs that interest people enough to see them through to graduation. I went to community college and a lot of people don’t want generic jobs like electrician, CNA, plumber, cop, lawyer, architect, PSA, social worker, etc… almost nothing interesting, cutting edge, specialized, or unique is offered at community schools. In fact, community college seemed to stress conformity above all other values. Then the cherry on top, couldn’t even transfer most of my community college credits to a REAL college with REAL programs that specialize in an extremely wide array of programs that pay out 6 figures after graduation, give you the tools to make real change in your field of interest, and actually feed your curiosity and life-purpose. Community college is mostly just a profit scheme used to fleece people that can’t afford university. It costs you tons of time and therefore money and you will see virtually no pay bump after graduating from community college. There is no community college degree that will provide you a higher paying job besides a criminal justice degree and becoming a cop, which brings us full-circle to that community college is mostly a statist scam that is used to reinforce the ruling class in every community across the country. There is basically no degree from community college that will pay you more than being a manager at a restaurant, working in a factory, a small business, or virtually any manual labor job. You also don’t need community college to enter the trades… and never did, you can apprentice for a year or two and get certified all the while you get paid to learn… unlike community college which will fleece you of your time and money for nothing of real value in return. All that college to make $16-24 an hour… just no… I wish community college was the answer, but it’s just another layer of the scam.
Community College Professor here- reminding you that A) if you go to CC and save a bunch of money before transferring to a 4 year university, you will and the same degree and B) we also offer a bunch of two year degrees and certificates in marketable fields like CIT
lol I went to community college and it was a scam. You can apprentice for any trade job, you don’t need college for it. The manager at Burger King, the factory worker, the manual laborer make more money than the EMT’s or CNA’s or PTA’s or welders coming out of community college. Most community college credits don’t transfer to university unless it’s the university they are specifically attempting to pipeline people into (another part of the scam). Community college offers literally nothing… less than nothing really, because it steals your time and money for nothing of substance in return besides a lateral career move to a similar paying job. Getting away from community college for a real university was the best thing I ever did for my future. You’re setting kids up to fail funneling them into community colleges… there is a reason that they can’t get their graduation rates over 20%, and it’s not the students.
Watching the protests was so frustrating. The students were right, and built on the last 60 years of college protests against horrible social issues. Just like those protests, students were shot, ignored, and disparaged by politicians and news outlets. Again professors were arrested and harassed. I've taught at college and the student's do get it, but the critiques are so disingenuous. Watching students get punished by administrations, because of course no one is allowed to use what we teach them unless it's to make money. I freaking hate it, and it galvanizes me to keep teaching. To add to it in the American Historical Association forums, there are historians who criticized students with the same weak arguments of "oh well they are violent so it doesn't matter" despite the clear evidence that the police regularly antagonized and attacked protesters. Most of the historians supported students, but that any historian wouldn't shows how little some people know about current political movements, and past ones. Thank you for making this video, keep protesting.
College graduate here! It sucks. You pay thousands and thousands of dollars to get a degree that doesn't get you a well-paying job anymore. The traditional thing my parents told me to do, isn't working. Not sure what to do and I feel more lost than ever.
I feel you too. I graduated Uni last year, and I still can't find a job. My parents told me to go find a job in my career, but most Entry level jobs want 5-6 years worth of experience right out the gate. I was told I was "worth" more since I had 2 degrees, so they wouldn't let me try to find others jobs. Now, a year later, they are telling me to go back to school and get another degree ( in engineering or nursing). I told them no because it would just be a waste of time and asking for me to be in more debt than I already am. Not to mention, there is a chance that I still won't find a job in those career paths like now. Parents (some of them) think college is so simple and that getting into a whole bunch of debt is worth it. With everybody getting degrees nowadays, I feel like the value in a degree is decreasing. If I were "worth more", then I would already have a job in my career. It has got to the point that most people have to get jobs outside their career paths (that pay them less than what they are worth and can barely live). The economy is trash along with the job market. At this point, I am going to find my own way and figure something out.
It was way cheaper during the Reagan Administration when I went to college. I payed for it with just working part time at retail and an amusement park. The elites ,Adam is complaining about are all from the Ivy League schools they get a tons of funding when community colleges and trade schools got a pittance.
@@jbstars3205 "Entry Level" -> "Requires 5-6 years" It's always such a bullshit scam. The jobs out there want a you to have a Masters degree with a lifetime of experience before you even graduate (somehow) while giving you $15-25/hour depending on where you live.
We torture them even more with the “ENTRY LEVEL” job. must have 3-5 years experience and have a Bachelor degree prefer a Masters. 25 dollars an hour. Have like 80 different skills sets. Meanwhile the person who left that job had none of those things when he/she was hired on. 🤦♂️ 🤦♀️
And if you don't have the years of experience after applying to hundreds of these 'entry level' jobs, you get an internship where youre unpaid labor, or a contract where you'll be told you'll definitely totally get hired on as a full time employee with actual benefits after a year or so, then you never do.
A college degree just put me into more poverty because of student debt. It's just not worth it anymore. The pay doesn't keep up with the cost of the degree after graduating.
I am currently a local community college student. It is almost $1k for one 3 hour credit class alone; that's without the books, too. AT A LOCAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
@@glennwatson3313 Taxes are what you pay to live in a nice society. If you don't like it you can always move to a cave and fend for yourself, hermitism is still a thing.
I studied medicine in France and it's so great. No tuition (even for Americans), no debt, universal healthcare, meals for €1, start working at the hospital after studying only 1 year, and a culture that's not so toxic. I don't think anyone would study medicine in the US if they knew. (But I'm happy they don't know bc many ppl who study medicine in the US did much better than me academically)
@WastedBananas It depends on what kind of dr u are. U can also move to Switzerland or Dubai after graduation if max money is ur concern. And even as a student u get healthcare at low cost that u would need to be wealthy to access in the US .
Being inconvenient for rich people is the number one cause for arrest in America, and what's worse, is the poorest, most uneducated seem to think it's the rich people they don't like on the TV, instead of their preferred rich people, or that perhaps, being a convenient bootlicker is the way to becoming rich too- temporarily embarrassed bourgeoisie one medical bill away from homelessness. Add in politicans worried about "frivolous waste of our tax dollars" to ease student loan payments and lower the cost of education, but totally okay with 100 billion being spent on bombers and tanks that will never see the light of day EACH year because one General has it as a pet project, or your local government spending billions of federal money meant to rebuild and refurbish transportation on adding an extra lane that will, in less than 3 months, be useless and make traffic problems worse. If Business suffers, aren't supported by taxes, an army of lobbyists and lawyers will fight tooth and nail, politicians will tear off their shirts and pastors will preach on the pulpit over it. But if students suffer, who cares? They're students. They need to get a job and become the majority of the gears that make business work. As the troll says to the human child, "Shut up, you're food. Food doesn't talk."
Damn as a current college student this video hit like a truck like I did not expect to start crying by the end of it. Adam fr dropping banger after banger with these videos
Dude. I know this isn't what you were getting at, but I went to college in a small city where the university was the primary economic driver in the city. The town folk absolutely hated the students and university. I was really involved in local politics, and town folk would refuse to host or attend events at the university. It was crazy how hard the divide between students and town folk were.
For a simple reason, Education is a Scam! These kids should go and work in the factories and mines and what not making pennies on the dollar, that is what people mean when they say Make America Great Again!
@@gregmark1688 generally I would agree, but in this situation the university and the city were very separate. The city government cooperated with the university the bare minimum necessary, which wasn't much because the university is on the smaller side. The university had its own police force, which is unusual because it's such a small school. I would say the whole town's boss was the Cherokee Nation, the other large economic driver in the area.
We have that here in Waterville Maine Colby college pretty much owns the town and they see fit how roads and infrastructure are placed in the city area. And it pisess off everyone who is not in the campus area because they get ignored in funds and repair. Granted the business and areas Colby have are clean neat and policed...
Canadian here. It’s only tangentially related, but it’s a fun anecdote about the cost of this sort of anti-intellectualism in the long term. My small province of Saskatchewan was established about 120 years ago. At first there were a few medium-sized and growing cities, one of which was Prince Albert. Prince Albert was once an important city, and was given the choice between getting a University, or a Federal Penitentiary. They thought the prison had more economic potential, so they chose that and the university went to Saskatoon instead. Fast forward to the present day, and Saskatoon is several times larger and more prosperous than Prince Albert, with PA largely being seen as a moribund hellhole with a really bad vibe in the air. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. Anyway… love the channel and the video is terrific. Keep it up.
@@reikyfoxxe1847 If you consider the need for outside energy to be a form of violence, then yes. But there is no inherent need for interpersonal violence as such.
@@jonathanwarner4720 Except there is; because there will always be different people who have conflicting goals that are mutually exclusive of each other and one side will not take "No" for an answer and will not change their goals unless forced to, if even then.
@@ParagonFury Hence my comment about us not actually being that advanced as a species. Until all humans are relentless in their desire to understand the world through true consensus reality and critical thinking then yes we are doomed to repeat our mistakes as a species. It doesn't mean we can't still work towards being a better species through improving community, education, and cognition.
Well, the easy answer for why is that diverse peoples with differenf beliefs and opinions will always form an "us" vs "them" way of thinking. Justifying violence probably never will go away because so much of it is inherently psychological.
I go to UC Santa Barbara, I wasn't part of the protests, but I saw them every day and they were incredibly peaceful, and never interfered in our learning. I think our chancellor was a little more cunning (although not necessarily good) and he waited until right after the school year ended to call the cops so that there wouldn't be a huge audience for all the arrests.
Thanks for pointing out that the ultimate goal is to keep people locked in poverty, and to drive as many people into that poverty as possible. I've always said, just look at every policy the Republican party backs as a whole, and ask what the outcome is for each policy, and we'll see a massive campaign to impoverish the working US.
I have always concluded one thing about the main founding of the USA, from its founding after the first revolution war till nowy It was always about the rich trying to cover their bottom line and keep getting richer, richer and richer. The Farmers/workers helped the American Revolution because the Rich gave them sums of Money as compensation for George Washington's Army if they enlisted. The farmers, drunks and immigrants George Washington Army's existed off, DID NOT FUCKING CARE who really was in charge at the time. They just ware swept up at the moment during the time. Then came the industrial revolution and the greatest joke of all the "American Dream". A big fable and fantasy that can never be achieved if you do not have big money and status to start with.
@@standard6502 Legitimately, I don't know what you're referring to. Could you explain? The "both parties" schtick is getting pretty old, and increasingly obviously wrong.
@@NZsaltz ignore any pendejo whose username doesn't have an avatar and ends in a series of random numbers, because it's just a cheap and fast made account that exists just to be a troll hiding amongst people too lazy to customize their easily customizable web persona. Just imagine this person scouring half the internet, looking for every odd comment to say "lol both sides, but dems especially suck" and moving on, and only responding to heated posts with "no u" sorts of posts. It's fake engagement done without any intention of serious discourse or communication. Whether it's a both, a troll, or just someone too lazy to get a proper username (and likely too lazy to actually understand the world around them), it's never worth the time to respond.
well both parties arent good, theyre both fascist/totalitarian but are the lesser of two evils, no matter who you vote for, one doesnt care abt a g3n0cide and makes oppressive laws and allows students practicing free speech to get attacked but excuse the corrupted ppl hurting them, and the other wants to make oppressive laws and deport ppl and make it a white mans country, while all the while oppressive laws and useless wars still go on, there is never a solution of the root problem bc the root problem is these people, these politicians, cops, etc. if the problems were ever fixed, an alternative to capitalism would have to be made, because capitalism doesnt put the people first. but the officials like their money and power, so it wont end. when there is capitalism, there is always suffering, and you are offered two crappy idolized 'saviors' who in the end will never be able to fix the problems because it all stems from the system, profit over people, not to mention that human rights are considered political/controversial legally, so if they wanna stop you from getting an ab0rshion they will do it, even if it is inhumane. there is no point in trying to make the claim one party is better, bc they commit the same sins as the other, they just use their words carefully, and make sure the people will always be against eachother by making a division of parties.
historically there is plenty of military actions upon students that end in bloodbaths, in most countries, it's just the nature of educated and progressive (with streaks socialist thought in the case for capitalist countries) students trying to make their thoughts heard, and the boot of their respective governments stomping down hard on them for it, america has had plenty, mexico has one famous one too. the truth is though that only "tiananmen" is remembered because its beneficial for the USA that china is seen as this all encompassing communist evil, hell even today it puts billions of dollars into misinformation campaigns rallying against china, the in the Philippines it was used to spread anti vax rhetoric because one of the main manufacturers of the vaccines was chinese at the time.
I've had several "would be" students ask me what college would be best to go to. I always say "Don't". "Go to a trade school instead . You'll be better off". Sure enough, every one i ever talked to actually DID go to a trade school by my suggestion , got hired within a week or two and all are actually working at jobs they love!. College is not worth the expenses wasted anymore.
You never see any college protests at trade schools, which the rich love, because they are trained to bow their heads to the powers that be and not think critically, unlike university.
“We may be producing a positively dangerous class situation, by educating so many working-class youth who would probably not make it into management but might make trouble, having had their sights raised.” -Gordon Tullock (econ professor), speaking with James Buchanan (also an econ professor), who both advised James Miller (FTC chairman, and Budget Director for Reagan). *we need a return to free in-state Uni!* ...this loan "forgiveness" isn't a true debt cancellation... it's a pay-off... we're being played again. we're givin the banks a massive payout. just like bank '08-'09 bail-outs; instead of directly saving homeowners from foreclosure, the banks will take this debt off the books and use it to fund more capital investments. a "cancellation" would be to tell the banks to f right off. least this time some of us get somethin in exchange? but, each new class/semester/degree we sign up for, still costs too much, continues to rise, & will put us right back into debt. continuing the cycle & fixing nothing.
My parents: you should have finished college, like us. Me: I made more at my last job than a lot of the college graduates, especially the younger people who are also now loaded with debt you didn't have as much of and could easily pay off, along with your cheaper housing & other expenses as a % of your income. Also my parents: lazy kids nowadays don't even want to work, or grow up and start families like we did.
It's not only rich "conservatives" or whatever. It's the rich and the powerful across the spectrum. Remember that Harris refused to let Palestinians speak.
Adam really had a slew of topics gifted to him over the years and just said _welp, time to cross these off the list_ and gave us a ton of quality content in a week
@@thedottinator4383 The name "Adam Ruins Everything" is owned by whoever it was he was working for when he made that show. They'd probably threaten to sue him if he used anything similar to that name, I guess.
I hope Adam or his editor(s) see this post and remember to cite their sources in the corner of the video like he did in his other shows. They added a layer of authenticity.
Yeah. I graduated from community college a couple years ago, and none of the companies I applied for wanted to hire me because I don’t have the experience they want me to have…because I was busy going to college.
18:32 and unfortunately, 20k is still pretty cheap for a college, most are like 30k or more for tuition, and then add in room and board and you can often buy a house for the same price as a bachelor’s degree. The worst is when you look at tuition, see it’s 20k or something, think “oh that’s surprisingly cheap”, then realize it’s per semester or quarter 🥲
I'm a college student living on my own while working full-time. Recently, my job cut my hours from 35-40 per week to just 4.5 to 5.5 hours, which has made it hard to cover my bills. To help with my financial situation, I applied for food stamps but was told I don't qualify because I need to work at least 20 hours a week as a student. This feels unreasonable, especially since my job has limited hours to save on payroll before the holidays. When I asked for alternatives, they suggested I file for unemployment due to reduced hours. However, they also asked if I'd consider quitting school to take a full-time job. If you're in a similar situation, know you're not alone-the system can be incredibly harsh. Don't give up on your education, even if you're pressured to make tough choices. Just be cautious about what you say in these situations, as it can impact your eligibility for assistance.
4 years of studying and working full time was certainly not fun. I've never understand it when certain groups try to frame the conversation about student loans like college students went off on a 4 year vacation on a cruise ship and should have to now work extra hard to pay back their time of decadence and leisure...
My biggest culture shock about coming to US of A has always been; parents tell their kids that they have to move out when they turn 18. It is even scarier that the trend is catching on around the world. I have always seen this as a trick by big companies to keep family poor. "Why split everyone's wealth in one whole family, when you can go out and pay the same bills alone?"
The college book company is screwing over students, and the college (not the professors) is letting them. The price of book skyrocketed. Buy used? Nope they'd come out with a new edition where the pages and problems will be different. Share a book with roomy? Nope. They'll put online homework questions that require a passcode. No sharing. Colleges could put a chock hold on these practices. They could use their leverage and they turn a blind eye. Some professors legit look at the prices of the book before they choose one but their hands are tied.....by the F-ing greed bastards at publishing companies.
it was so infuriating actually being on UT Austin’s campus in the spring and then see how the media was treating our specific campus protests, there just this giant disconnect between reality and what they were saying about us and the cause we were fighting for. i know MULTIPLE people that got hurt for literally just being near the protests, trying to get to class. multiple of my friends got arrested for STANDING TOO CLOSE TO COPS. it was infuriating, absolutely infuriating, seeing people say we deserved that treatment. we didn’t.
as a photojournalist who helped cover the protests about the war on Palestine in Pittsburgh on Pitt Campus, I will say the university made sure to ask the Pittsburgh police to stand in DURING A GRADUATION CEREMONY. When two kids up to even four kids were arrested at which some were even graduates.
Lowe's has had a tuition reimbursement program for years, but they're getting rid of it later this year. Hundreds of students around the country are about to leave Lowe's
Excellent video. I am a Native Californian. Back in the early 80s when I went to JC it was $5 dollars a unit! Not even close now. The University where I graduated from I believe is now over $40k without room and board a year! It was $6k a year in my senior year. 😮😮😮
Columbia student here: the cops and third party security contractors on campus were wayyyy more threatening than the encampment. The encampment was full of people mostly just sitting around, talking, occasionally chanting or dancing, sometimes a student would give a speech or there would be a debate. If it wasn't for the escalation of the university i believe it would have remained peaceful.
@@glennwatson3313ahh yes you seeing things that never happened is your schizophrenia again. Please take your medication as prescribed I know it's hard when you feel better and wonder why you have to take them.
@@glennwatson3313Why is it that the most anti-Semitic people trying to accuse other people of anti-Semitism all the time? I mean it's not just the projection with your lies, it's the fact that they're such stupid and obvious lies
@@emoryogglethorp8180 Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining. I saw with my own two eyes on multiple occasions, student protestors attacking passerbys and Jews. I'm not lying.
Adam, the customer hasn't "always been right" since the 90s. Big business dropped that facade and has figured out how to make money without providing value.
Someone had to say it!! Thank you for not being afraid of talking openly about these things. It's important, especially with the people on top wanting to censor or distort the reality of things.
The more I learn about the history of the United States, the more I dislike my parents generation, and the more I dislike it. The United States is single-handedly one of the most two faced nations I have ever seen.
this one hit really hard. makes me wonder if there's anyway that I could put my 'useless' degree to work in a way that the bourgeoise wouldn't want me to, now that I understand how hard they tried to keep me from getting it. if college used to be just for doctors and lawyers, then anyone who went to college to study anything else, even something useless like art or english, is a person that those in power know they cannot control, because we've devoted ourselves to thinking abstractly. now i get it
I actually had an extended interaction with Tom Cotton back in 1999; he was one of the dorm counselors at a program in Arkansas called Governor's School that was designed to give select students the opportunity to study in a specific program in a college environment for the summer term and was a really great experience. That being said, Mr. Cotton was my "R.A." for this program and I'll say this: He was a bit of a prick who enjoyed pushing people around back then and I don't think that core aspect of his personality has changed much in the couple of decades since.
@@standard6502 the instructors there (before they all left for better teaching positions) taught me skills that got me a job that paid $85k per year... but go off :)
Also let's not forget that once you graduate there might not even be jobs in your field, senior engineers are even struggling to find work much less engineering graduates. My college's solution was to force us to take a career class with advice that works.... Assuming you are a white male in the 1950s were back then all you had to do was shake the managers hand
Im attending sfsu and we just got news that our university is beginning to divest from several arms manufacturers, i didn't do anything to make this happen but I'm proud of my student union for fighting for this and making it happen. But my eyes are on gaza and im keeping vigilant on my university so they follow through on their promises.
I always enjoy your content, Adam, and like a lot of what you say... the main point is awesome, and to be listened to. Also, your little joke about Kreb cycles alone can open up even more study for those of us who are willing to just dive into the random jokes ya make. Thank you for giving us info in a great comedic and factual way, and for your own research that you do to make this entertaining for all of us. I started watching your content since your Adam Ruins Everything, as many people have. Sorry for ranting. Keep up the great work!!!!
Our daughter did her undergrad degree from the same state school we did. Our fault, she grew up going to Volleyball games there. One class cost what a semester cost for us in the 80s. Her books did too Then she got a Master degree. Made the undergrad look inexpensive. The amount we saved for education since her birth did not quite project college cost as well as it should have.
Live In a college town without working there or being a student, you will change your tune. There is a reason why “town vs. gown” exists, students treat most of them like a cheap rental car.
Some high tech factories have actually moved to Germany and other European countries because they could not get enough engineers in the USA. This attack on education in the USA is going to drive out a lot of companies that won't have the ability to stay.
That is the true fucking Irony here, The USA and its companies became more depedant on foreign outside USA countries because of their attack on education system. A system mind you that was intended to get high qualified workers? The same workers that would have made those fucking elite rich more richer anyway? The more I hear about things like this, the more i freaking want that the American dollar becomse worthless, so the Right eventually has nothing. But that would too naive to think off me that the rich would then worse off.
The fact that poor, working and middle-class white Americans think that billionaires such as Trump and Murdoch actually understand and give a f*ck about them and their needs, amuses me to no end.
I'm not sure why that amuses you instead of infuriating you or inspiring you to talk to the people you know about creating moral fusion so we can all be lifted! Instead, what you're laughing that you won't get anywhere either?
@@jacquelinehembrey4825 Where did I state that it neither infuriated or inspired me to do anything? Oh, that's right - I didn't. 🤨 Please don't presume to know what's on my mind, or in my heart. And if you'd sincerely like to know, then next time, just ask me.
I went to four different colleges; never finished a degree. But my college experience was valuable because I actually learned some stuff, and that part--taking classes and learning things--seems to get ignored a lot. It's supposed to be an intellectually enriching experience.
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these bots are out of control 😂
Thank-you for using your privilege and voice for good! 🙏
@@TheAdamConover more informed on this matter than you will ever be apparently… Either that or you're just lying.
Love that you devoted two whole segments of a minute each and also your pinned comment to your sponsor, very good ❤
It's incredible that a person as intelligent as you are, is not given a platform. Oh, wait. You are pro-palestine. xD I guess that's why. Keep on keeping on, you are the best! We are your platform.
Georg Carlin: “They want you smart enough to do the job. But dumb enough to not ask why.”
Atleast quote him right.
George was such a fucking icon.
What was the right quote@@Redactedlllllllllllll?
“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.”
@@cassiusdhami9215holy on he’s still searching it up lol
College doesn't just change your mind because of what you study; the best thing about college for me was meeting and getting to know so many people who came from different ways of life and had totally different perspectives. That seems to be another reason some people deride higher education.
It’s almost like the people in power secretly want to destroy what makes a democracy or a republic because they are addicted to power. Our founding fathers are rolling in their graves for this.
Well it's not necessarily true that college changes minds. It does happen! But much more often than not, progressive students leave college more progressive while conservative students leave college more conservative.
More than meeting people and being exposed to other cultures, religions, and social norms, it's the ability to engage respectfully with people. My 4 year university degree isn't something I apply in my everyday work (I finished up at a technical college after obtaining my degree), but it gave me vital skills in areas that average citizens don't use on a daily basis: critical thinking skills, the ability to comprehend complex problems and finding solutions to solve them, the practiced skill of reading and researching nuanced subjects, and the ability to formulate your own position and test it through group critique, debate, and defending it publicly in person. College campuses are supposed to be fostering these concepts first and foremost, not feeding their students pablum by rote, or as the right wingers fear, teach their students to become "woke". Colleges and universities are supposed to be the safe bastions of experimenting with political thought, anthropological studies, historical analysis, and provide us all with a plurality of ideas and perspectives, before they get tested in a "real world" setting. And that's why you have private companies, think tanks, and special interest groups putting their hand on the scales trying to steer graduates toward what they know to be safe aka profitable. You can achieve new technologies or write dissertations on foreign policy or banking derivative investments, provided that it remains sympathetic to their desired outcomes. Once you start expressing differing plans for when you enter the work force, or worse, you plan to change institutions from within in order to correct the mistakes of the past, that's when you are met with external resistance and organized force.
@@AuntieHauntieGames As a former conservative who went to college and came out progressive, I disagree. I believe a lot of people follow the same trajectory as me, because when you're raised in a bubble and suddenly go out into the real world and discover all these people and ideas you were taught to be afraid of are actually not that bad, you tend to change your views. That's why conservatives hate college WAY more than liberals. Why do you think they're always going on about universities brainwashing kids and turning them "woke"?
But... the people you are meeting there are out of their parent's homes for the first time ever... They do not have important connections to help you. They do not have life experience or wisdom. If they have ANY wealth, it is their parents. The only thing you get exposed to in college is the indoctrination other children experienced. It's babies raising other babies.
In high school, I read the autobiography of Fredrick Douglass, a former slave and famed Abolitionist. The chapter that stood out to me the most was his explanation of his education. Originally, one of his owners did give him and his fellow slaves an education, but her husband stopped her from doing that. Douglass himself got hooked, and he found ways to get books to continue his education on his own in secret. It was during this education that he realized the most important thing: slaves were kept uneducated because then they could never question or realize that how they were being treated was wrong. When the slaves were only taught to be obedient and take their punishment with no other reference or means of questioning, then they couldn't break free. This was a man who escaped literal slavery as a teenager in the 1800s, and he knew the exact playbook that continues today
I also read that recently. Great connections you’ve made. Well said.
His autobiography should be mandatory reading in high school, imo
@@UnicornsPoopRainbows$20 says that right wing extremists will want that book banned.
"For revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival."
- Fredrick Douglas
I also read it in high school and it was by far the best required reading of all time.
My parents always talked about how affordable college was for them, and how part time jobs paid their tuition. It has always sounded like a sick fantastical joke to me, affordable higher education that was just a generation before my time. I've hated everything I've learned about Ronald Reagan, but dismantling free education? Fucking heinous. I may have some bitter feelings about the struggle I went through to get my degree through the UC system, but thankfully most of my frustration was just with my comp sci degree being inexplicably useless. Peaceful protest turned police shootings were something I am so relieved to have dodged.
My father was able to pay for his education at a private Catholic university in the 1950s by working a part time job. That same university is now over 50K a year.
@@Jennifer-my5dmand these are the same group of people calling us young people lazy, and saying we have it better than they ever did. They're delusional.
@@gokuformanvsfood Are you Gen? I'm a Gen X-er, and I think most of you are pretty awesome. I don't think you're lazy. The handful of Gen Z-ers I've worked with have been hard working, smart, and respectful. I refuse to treat Gen Z as poorly as Gen X was.
Ronald.fucking.Reagan ...I swear to God you can take any modern problem and trace it back to him.
The Democrats never truly forgave him for handing their asses to them in a 49 state landslide.
@augustodelerme7233 Probably Nixon, too.
@augustodelerme7233???😊
@augustodelerme7233 Carter spent his term trying to clean up the mess that Ford and Nixon made.
You can't say anything bad about Blessed Saint Ronnie! I mean sure, he pushed trickle down economics that shredded the middle class, didn't realize until he saw The Day After that Americans would die in a nuclear war, and got a bunch of Marines killed in a useless show of strength, and so many other fiascos.
Another aspect of how the higher education system is being systematically destroyed is the exploitation of adjunct professors. It used to be that adjuncts made up only about 20-30% of all college faculty in the 1970s. Nowadays, about 70-80% of instructors hired at colleges are adjunct professors, who are paid pittance salaries and are given no benefits, yet are expected to teach most of the core classes that all incoming freshman have to take. Adjuncts are often forced to take multiple jobs just to survive, which means they are massively overworked, which means that students are not getting the quality education they deserve despite paying increasingly exorbitant tuition fees. Meanwhile the administrators at the top are making six-figure salaries for doing far less work. Call me crazy, but maybe colleges shouldn't be structured the same as a greedy corporation.
Adjuncts are also rated by the students they teach every year. If the ratings are bad they don't get hired back for another semester. It's not in an adjuncts best interest to make their students unhappy, which leads to grade inflation.
"Six figure salaries" doesn't mean anything anymore. If you live in an average city and you're not making 100k you're in a permanent renting underclass.
These days a nice Camry costs 40k. With taxes and interest the monthly payment is $1k for 48 months. Someone making a teaching adjunct salary can't even buy a CAMRY.
@@andiskene7346Now that is entirely full circle back to the typical legacy that occupied college campuses prior to the GI Bill, as well as why the “gentleman’s C” was invented…
No matter how much elites keep claiming hierarchy and who your father is matters, their sons and daughters keep proving them wrong by accident.
You have highlighted a very interesting part of the story! There are several reasons why adjunct professors are considered better for higher education. The most important reason is that it is easier to manipulate them, and they are significantly cheaper. It's not just the government that takes money from universities; the truth is that higher education has really become too expensive to maintain in its current form. Adjunct professors are just one of the sources that help keep it working... but in the end, we are getting grade inflation and other problems
@Dachusblot By the way, I read a couple of good academic articles that confirm your words.
Andrew Yang said "college is 5 times more expensive than 30 years ago. Is it 5 times better?" Answer: it's less value
One of the last things Yang said that made sense before he gave in and tried to become a grifter. 🥴🥴
@@dangerousdays2052 Agreed. I think he just realized there's no way to become president without corporate backing. Corporate campaign contributions are just bribes
The problem is the federal government got involved. It backed student loans, BUT it also made it impossible to discharge a loan in bankruptcy. Basically, it was “free money” to the colleges. Not everyone went to college. But, that “free college” came with a catch. Those with high grades in high school got accepted to college. Graduate with straight “D’s?” You went to Vietnam.
@@HVACSoldierRight, so the schools became bloated overpriced bureaucracies because they could charge higher and higher prices. So we get lots of useless graduates in sociology, gender studies, and political science. They graduate and find out their $80k degree gets them a job at Starbucks. But this is all Reagan's fault according to Adam.
@@HVACSoldierway to ignore 2 important things; a draft and the fact trade jobs exist 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 college is sold to many people as something is not, a guarantee of a job
What the hell is the appeal of inviting a celebrity that's not graduating with you to make a speech about a struggle they'll never understand? There's no way these celebrities do it for free, so it's an extra expense that contributes to higher tuition and higher student debt.
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Because it's good for marketing/recruitment. Has nothing to do with the current grads.
@@robertbrown2706recruiting specific people who know the celebrity and thus might think alike.
quite an obvious psy op to filter and recruit only the people you want, yes men and women who wont question anything
@@robertbrown2706 ...exactly right. same idea behind activities & sports teams & flashy stuff on campuses; it's to build up a brand image, for it's investors. basically, they've become companies, not schools.
@@robertbrown2706 Exactly. Reject televised graduations. Reject distribution of the recordings outside of people that were invited to attend.
That day is about YOU and the staff that taught you. Not a darn thing else.
I'm British. My parents were students in the 1980s and marched with CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament). They were on a peaceful protest in Birmingham when they walked round a corner and realised the police were waiting and ambushing the protesters, throwing them into vans and beating them. My parents dumped their placards and zipped their jackets up over their badges, and they snuck past.
It really saddens me that students in the US are still dealing with this bull. 40 years later, and I can't honestly say the UK is doing any better either.
My father was a founding member of the Nuclear Disarmament movement when he was a professor in college. You can bet he was on an FBI watchlist, for arguing for peace.
6:54 "'Never again' means never again for *anyone.* "
Such a powerful quote
Two time Kent State grad here. Here’s my issue: after we leave the classroom, students are scattered to the wind. There’s power in numbers and organizing, so when we go from a community of likeminded adults attending regularly scheduled meetings into the “real world,” we feel that much more alone, disillusioned, and unsure of how to proceed with making the sort of change we were working toward
Kent state........ haven't heard that name since may 4th, 1970
I understand how you feel. Depending where you live, there should be a political party, NGO, activist group, labor union, etc., where you can meet like-minded people and learn how to organize outside of a college context
Internet communities help a lot with that, at least at feeling connected and in touch. Even if it’s just a community surrounding a hobby or a fandom.
Same goes for volunteering in your local community or joining a club of some sort. It’s not as fun as college socializing, but it’s real life now with people of different ages and incomes (hopefully). I mean, you don’t really have an administration to protest against anymore either
I feel like that’s on purpose. We have almost no sense of community, at least in the US, bar some solidarity of minorities, occasionally family, and chosen family. We don’t have places to go, are forced to work so much so we don’t have time, energy, or money to do so, etc.m
@@Porpentein Plus disabled people who are less likely to be represented in college populations and work populations due to ableism in academia and hiring practices.
Honestly this is nothing new. University students were always hated. They are educated enough to understand what is wrong and young and optimistic enough to want to fight to change it.
He literally explains that in the video lol
Educated doesn’t always mean intelligent, but there are exceptions.
College can challenge and change your world view and force to interact with people and culture who are form different place unlike high-school where it usually most people are from the same neighborhood also for certain education like art and engineering you might have to leave you neighborhood and live in another state because it more specialized
@@HypaSnypa12 you don't need to be intelligent in the old sense of the word to aquire good critical thinking skills and be informed about the state of the world. Both can be aquired by education. If you use the new sense of the word, educated people are more intelligent because they have invested in skills that allow them to gather information, assess the reliability of the information, analyse different schools of thought on a topic and then come to a well belanced conclusion they can defend.
He's a neeeeeeew wooooooorld maaaaaaaan.
Sorry, I saw the chance to make a Rush reference and I took it.
I strongly believe in higher education, but USA colleges and universities have become more like loan shark enterprises than places of learning. And it’s not an accident.
It makes education less accessible, upward social mobility less obtainable, and a populace more malleable.
It’s also abhorrent to antagonize students who are exercising their first amendment right via peacefully protesting. Their money is supposed to be going towards their education, not a war.
thank you for the praise for the humanities and social sciences. it is so agonizing to constantly hear these fields being sh*t on by mainstream media, boomers/gen xers, and so many other people, particularly those who dont even have a college degree at all. like wtf do u even know if u never even took one of these classes???? my major was sociology and anthropology, and i feel studying them has literally radically changed my worldview not just on politics, but also humanity as a whole, my perspective on life, other people, philosophy, history, science, everything. i went from having the view that everyone is inherently selfish to a view where everyone is actually inherently altruistic. i have more faith in our potential as humans on earth, more ambition, more confidence and less fear about the unknown. these fields being associated with buzzwordy performative activist ideas and "useless" nonpractical info is just because our capitalist system makes us think that capitalism is the default "normal" and "best" system and our worldviews are "just the way things are". they dont want us to know anything about these fields yet for some reason, colleges teach them. so they make college unaffordable so that only those with financial access can learn about these fields which means the average person is more likely going to demonize or make fun of what they dont know. but i think everyone should study these fields to some extent. and come to your own conclusions about what theyre about. which means higher ed needs to be more accessible. and i think everyone knows how valuable it is, they just soak up the propaganda and develop cognitive dissonance.
As a social sciences grad, my impression was always that the humanities and social sciences 1) are usually dealing with the intangible, and a lot of people seem to have a hard time with abstract concepts, and 2) aren't as obviously linked to a profitable career, which makes them "useless" under capitalism, and I probably don't have to tell you how the capitalistic drive for money above all else rots people's brains.
It's always the humanities that suffers first under creeping authoritarianism. We have come to the point where any subject that doesn't enhance shareholder portfolio is considered useless, and humanities falls under that.
It's also like "oh no, this class calls out racism and slaveowners, class divides, and just in general explains history as it actually happened! We can't have that, our ancestors were racists, slaveowners, rich people, and don't look good in their history yearbook!"
They just play classes teaching truth as being an "attack" on American values or on their party, in part because they say they're against racism in front of major news outlets, but then go on racist tirades at a RNC meeting, on their private facebook group, at a major PAC, up to an including how "phony schools aren't teaching correctly when they say Hitler was a bad guy with bad ideas."
Damn this video hit harder than a cop at a peaceful student protest
Underrated comment.... Useless reply for the algorithm gods
This comment hit harder than 40% of cops when they got home
"Mostly Peaceful".
it was peaceful until the cops show up... sooo technically it wasn't peaceful.... cop book 101 breaking the car lights and stuff..
@@TheCaptainSlappy The population in general is mostly lawful.
Does that mean you condone a police state and random police raids since people are only "mostly lawful"?
In a war between the rich and the poor, the rich have somehow convinced millions of the poorest Americans that a billionaire will be their champion. This fact alone makes it extraordinarily difficult to maintain any sort of hope for the future of the working class in America.
It's why they want to keep people ignorant. It allows them to spin a web of lies and when people lack the ability and discipline to distill the truth for themselves, they tend to value the convenience of the lie over the truth. What makes it worse is when well educated people, whether wealthy or looking to use their knowledge to exploit others, attempt to give these argument validity. As for why they'd choose to look to billionaires for salvation, it's because they see wealthy people as the embodiment of the success they seek, and naively believe that they will help bring them wealth as well, after all they are successful themselves. Of course, anyone with half a brain, forget a good education, can see that their wealth and success comes from exploitation, and they have no intention of helping others. But again, it's more convenient to believe the lie than to accept the truth.
Each generation is catching on, once they hit them mid 20s and those bills start hitting hard along side rent. The revolution will be gen Alpha .
@@deelee4639 Right... because it's not like the Boomers or GenX ever complained about social issues when THEY were in their 20s, and look how fair they setup the board now.
But sure Gen Alpha totally gonna revolt....by complaining online while they ALSO willfully bend over backwards to objectify themselves for social media.
Big Revolution coming....I bet pop up ads will be completely stopped on their tracks by entitled masses who have zero capacity for strategy.
I’ll finally abandon hope on the working class when the Democrats actually start doing something to help the working class and they still reject it to follow their culture war grievances. The Democrats abandoning labor in the 80s was the original push down the slippery slope into facism that we are currently tumbling down.
There is no hope. Unfortunately, none.
My college has the slogan “be revolutionary” they sent like 50 cops in riot gear after Palestine protestors and arrested like 150 people
They highlight those things to attract students (money!), but At the end of the day they still must conform to the capitalist status quo. Can’t have people trying to fight for justice that would threaten their hegemony
Ah, the good old Revolutionary People's Police Department
No one cared about protests until it was against Israel
Just imagine being one of those cops...
"Be revolutionary" is a slogan. Liberals like slogans, but hate action. They want to feel good, not do good.
I'd like to protest that schools are allowed to "invest" at all.
This is important context to know when Democrat administrations move to forgive student loan debt. It's not "Socialism". Higher education was _supposed_ to be free. That money was stolen from you. Forgiving some of that debt is a spineless compromise when in reality they should be pushing to make it free again, like it's supposed to be.
@@Jrpyify Back when it was free, only the smartest individuals got into UC-Berkeley. It’s not like everyone who graduated from high school in California was eligible to enroll into college. I’m sure even some of the smartest individuals that applied for student deferments were denied.
@@HVACSoldier then you make more schools. I don’t see how you people don’t think about all this. More then enough money in tuition has been paid the govt should foot that entire bill
@@Valvad0ss It’s not as simple as that.
1) Back when it was “free,” it wasn’t entirely free. Only the tuition was free. You still had room, board, and student fees.
2) California developed its “Master Plan” in 1960.
“That some form of higher education ought to be available to all regardless of their economic means, and that academic progress should be limited only by individual proficiency; and
differentiation of function so that each of the three systems would strive for excellence in different areas, so as to not waste public resources on duplicate efforts.”
It basically said “IF you were smart enough to learn more, the state would pay your tuition at a state run (PUBLIC) university.”
“According to the Plan, the top one-eighth (12.5%) of graduating high school seniors would be guaranteed a place at a campus of the University of California tuition-free. The top one-third (33.3%) would be able to enter the California State University system. Junior colleges (later renamed "community colleges" in 1967) would accept any students "capable of benefiting from instruction."[11] These percentages are now enforced by sliding scales equating grade point average and scores on the SAT or ACT, which are recalculated every year. No actual ranking of students in high schools is used as many schools do not rank students.”
3) It’s COMPLICATED, and Adam Conover could probably find a better source that would tell him the same thing.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Master_Plan_for_Higher_Education
@@HVACSoldier Yeah, but that's the difference between the plan and what is actually happening on the ground. You can list off Hiter's plans yet none materialized. So the whole argument you brought up is stupid. I suggest you take a look look at the real events and find a better source, like I don't know, the fucking video above?
Some things simply cannot and should not be for-profit. Education, healthcare, and journalism among them. These things can be neither unbiased nor efficient when they have billionaires and middlemen trying to squeeze money out them at every opportunity.
Based
Unfortunately, governments are also not well known for being unbiased nor efficient.
But…but providing common sense things like this would be….SOCIALISM. And we’re supposed to be afraid of that word
Just the word though. There’s plenty of socialism…for the rich.
Most colleges and universities in the US are nonprofit organizations.
....and prisons. Roads & infrastructure. Clean water, air, food & drugs, some amount of daycare, sanitation, waste treatment, basic utilities.
I do hate the constant rhetoric about how people don't want "their" money paying for other people's loans, when in reality, more of their money is going to other government departments (military) and other scams than it ever did to supporting fellow Americans in general.
Reminds me of how regressives freaked out when they thought that Obamacare was Universal Healthcare becuz they didn't want their money going to help poor people. 🥴🥴
Your numbers are way off. The vast majority of taxes go to public spending. Far more than to the military. This is not really debatable. The numbers are easy to find.
I just don't think about my taxes like that. They would be even higher in my birth land of Italy and I'm fine with that too cuz health care.
@@maidenthe80sla A lot of Republicans complain about the bailouts that were mostly given to Ivey League graduates.
@@thinkharder93322 million dead Iraqi civilians is certainly a result.
People gaining critical thinking skills and criticizing the systems they’re subjected to, will always get backlash. My advice to college students: NEVER STOP. You’re literally going to inherit this society. Make it into one that works for everyone. ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻
As someone who graduated from high school this year, it’s been really depressing to see how many of my friends have had to turn down acceptance letters from really good universities because they wouldn’t be able to afford the tuition.
If you don't want kids to go to college unless they can pay cash, you do not want poor people to get power and decision-making jobs. We need doctors, lawyers, politicians and other college degrees needing jobs held by people that were poor for perspective and equity.
I'm American and I don't hate college. I hate college administrators.
Administrators getting paid more than professors is absolutely baffling.
College administration today exists to take power away from college faculty while also being a human slush fund to absorb the massive piles of money colleges take in(as long as they serve the interests of the rich)
How about college football coaches?
@iwatchyoutube523 I don't love that they make that much, but honestly they are less scooby doo villainous than administration. I work in higher ed...
@@DMLoosey A college is just another word in today world for a corporation so what did you expect.
Going to college for me was like a full time job I had to pay for, rather than a job that paid me. The financial stress ruined the whole experience. Tuition is so high that scholarships don't cover the cost anymore.
Going to college is a full time job. They are not supposed to pay you.
@@glennwatson3313 Yeah. But at least lower tuition to the affordable level baby boomers. Boomers were given everything and they voted against it all.
@@glennwatson3313Boomers were given low tuition and voted AGAINST it. Worst generation in history.
@@GenerationX1984 Boomers faced the threat of nuclear attack on a daily basis. Your generation's greatest fear seems to be being miss-gendered. By the way we were not given low tuition. We paid it. And we did not get the lazy rivers and safe spaces college students insist on now.
@@glennwatson3313 "is a full time job" + "not supposed to pay you" what occupies your skull bc it cannot be a brain. Incredible. Do you drive a car? You're allowed to vote? And it counts just as much as anyone else huh? What a world
High school teacher here. I make a point to make it clear that community college and trade school are dope options.
Ronald Reagan fucked over my generation, I'm not gonna let him fuck over theirs.
Trade schools are really underrated right now
Unfortunately, the opportunities offered at community colleges are so limited and cookie cutter, that there are very few programs that interest people enough to see them through to graduation. I went to community college and a lot of people don’t want generic jobs like electrician, CNA, plumber, cop, lawyer, architect, PSA, social worker, etc… almost nothing interesting, cutting edge, specialized, or unique is offered at community schools. In fact, community college seemed to stress conformity above all other values. Then the cherry on top, couldn’t even transfer most of my community college credits to a REAL college with REAL programs that specialize in an extremely wide array of programs that pay out 6 figures after graduation, give you the tools to make real change in your field of interest, and actually feed your curiosity and life-purpose. Community college is mostly just a profit scheme used to fleece people that can’t afford university. It costs you tons of time and therefore money and you will see virtually no pay bump after graduating from community college. There is no community college degree that will provide you a higher paying job besides a criminal justice degree and becoming a cop, which brings us full-circle to that community college is mostly a statist scam that is used to reinforce the ruling class in every community across the country. There is basically no degree from community college that will pay you more than being a manager at a restaurant, working in a factory, a small business, or virtually any manual labor job. You also don’t need community college to enter the trades… and never did, you can apprentice for a year or two and get certified all the while you get paid to learn… unlike community college which will fleece you of your time and money for nothing of real value in return. All that college to make $16-24 an hour… just no… I wish community college was the answer, but it’s just another layer of the scam.
Unfortunately, the opportunities offered at community colleges are so limited and cookie cutter, that there are very few programs that interest people enough to see them through to graduation. I went to community college and a lot of people don’t want generic jobs like electrician, CNA, plumber, cop, lawyer, architect, PSA, social worker, etc… almost nothing interesting, cutting edge, specialized, or unique is offered at community schools. In fact, community college seemed to stress conformity above all other values. Then the cherry on top, couldn’t even transfer most of my community college credits to a REAL college with REAL programs that specialize in an extremely wide array of programs that pay out 6 figures after graduation, give you the tools to make real change in your field of interest, and actually feed your curiosity and life-purpose. Community college is mostly just a profit scheme used to fleece people that can’t afford university. It costs you tons of time and therefore money and you will see virtually no pay bump after graduating from community college. There is no community college degree that will provide you a higher paying job besides a criminal justice degree and becoming a cop, which brings us full-circle to that community college is mostly a statist scam that is used to reinforce the ruling class in every community across the country. There is basically no degree from community college that will pay you more than being a manager at a restaurant, working in a factory, a small business, or virtually any manual labor job. You also don’t need community college to enter the trades… and never did, you can apprentice for a year or two and get certified all the while you get paid to learn… unlike community college which will fleece you of your time and money for nothing of real value in return. All that college to make $16-24 an hour… just no… I wish community college was the answer, but it’s just another layer of the scam.
Community College Professor here- reminding you that A) if you go to CC and save a bunch of money before transferring to a 4 year university, you will and the same degree and B) we also offer a bunch of two year degrees and certificates in marketable fields like CIT
lol I went to community college and it was a scam. You can apprentice for any trade job, you don’t need college for it. The manager at Burger King, the factory worker, the manual laborer make more money than the EMT’s or CNA’s or PTA’s or welders coming out of community college. Most community college credits don’t transfer to university unless it’s the university they are specifically attempting to pipeline people into (another part of the scam). Community college offers literally nothing… less than nothing really, because it steals your time and money for nothing of substance in return besides a lateral career move to a similar paying job. Getting away from community college for a real university was the best thing I ever did for my future. You’re setting kids up to fail funneling them into community colleges… there is a reason that they can’t get their graduation rates over 20%, and it’s not the students.
Watching the protests was so frustrating. The students were right, and built on the last 60 years of college protests against horrible social issues. Just like those protests, students were shot, ignored, and disparaged by politicians and news outlets. Again professors were arrested and harassed. I've taught at college and the student's do get it, but the critiques are so disingenuous. Watching students get punished by administrations, because of course no one is allowed to use what we teach them unless it's to make money. I freaking hate it, and it galvanizes me to keep teaching. To add to it in the American Historical Association forums, there are historians who criticized students with the same weak arguments of "oh well they are violent so it doesn't matter" despite the clear evidence that the police regularly antagonized and attacked protesters. Most of the historians supported students, but that any historian wouldn't shows how little some people know about current political movements, and past ones. Thank you for making this video, keep protesting.
College graduate here! It sucks. You pay thousands and thousands of dollars to get a degree that doesn't get you a well-paying job anymore. The traditional thing my parents told me to do, isn't working. Not sure what to do and I feel more lost than ever.
I feel for ya, hope they aren't throwing that back in your face and calling or implying you're a failure for it.
I feel you too. I graduated Uni last year, and I still can't find a job. My parents told me to go find a job in my career, but most Entry level jobs want 5-6 years worth of experience right out the gate. I was told I was "worth" more since I had 2 degrees, so they wouldn't let me try to find others jobs.
Now, a year later, they are telling me to go back to school and get another degree ( in engineering or nursing). I told them no because it would just be a waste of time and asking for me to be in more debt than I already am. Not to mention, there is a chance that I still won't find a job in those career paths like now. Parents (some of them) think college is so simple and that getting into a whole bunch of debt is worth it. With everybody getting degrees nowadays, I feel like the value in a degree is decreasing. If I were "worth more", then I would already have a job in my career. It has got to the point that most people have to get jobs outside their career paths (that pay them less than what they are worth and can barely live). The economy is trash along with the job market. At this point, I am going to find my own way and figure something out.
It was way cheaper during the Reagan Administration when I went to college. I payed for it with just working part time at retail and an amusement park. The elites ,Adam is complaining about are all from the Ivy League schools they get a tons of funding when community colleges and trade schools got a pittance.
@@jbstars3205
"Entry Level" -> "Requires 5-6 years"
It's always such a bullshit scam. The jobs out there want a you to have a Masters degree with a lifetime of experience before you even graduate (somehow) while giving you $15-25/hour depending on where you live.
@@stanhrythat's messed up
We torture them even more with the “ENTRY LEVEL” job. must have 3-5 years experience and have a Bachelor degree prefer a Masters. 25 dollars an hour. Have like 80 different skills sets. Meanwhile the person who left that job had none of those things when he/she was hired on. 🤦♂️ 🤦♀️
And if you don't have the years of experience after applying to hundreds of these 'entry level' jobs, you get an internship where youre unpaid labor, or a contract where you'll be told you'll definitely totally get hired on as a full time employee with actual benefits after a year or so, then you never do.
more like $19 an hour...
@@narutouzumaki6409that's worse
How do they expect people to get that experience if they don’t hire them?
A college degree just put me into more poverty because of student debt. It's just not worth it anymore. The pay doesn't keep up with the cost of the degree after graduating.
I DIDNT REALIZE THE FIRST AMENDMENT HAD A NO HIPPIE CLAUSE
1st amendment has a “for those that can afford more, they’ll have more of this FREE stuff” clause.
To be fair it is a "not people who disagree with me" clause.
The joke woulda been better if they were hippies instead of hate mongers
@@shimonnyman1138 being against genocide makes you a hate monger?
Old people hating that young people have ideas has always been a thing.... but its really gotten outta hand lately
Trump emboldened a silent minority, its time to send MAGA back into their cellars. Vote blue.
I am currently a local community college student. It is almost $1k for one 3 hour credit class alone; that's without the books, too. AT A LOCAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
Last time I was this early America wasn't afraid of an educated proletariat.
So…. Never?
The fact that American politicians were scared of that is literal proof they don’t want a democracy or a republic, they want feudalism back.
So like what, 1300ish??
So before we funded America?
Ronald regan SUCKS. He should always be viewed as one of the worst politicians in American history
Thankfully, Minnesota has given free tuition to any family making $80,000 a year or less.
Thank you governor Walz for the North Star Promise.
Wow. Is that community college or 4 year institutions as well?
Why thank him. Its not his money?
Should I wait for that to become national (I'll probably be a skeleton first, the way the Dems break promises) or move cross-country to MN?
@@glennwatson3313 Taxes are what you pay to live in a nice society. If you don't like it you can always move to a cave and fend for yourself, hermitism is still a thing.
@@glennwatson3313 Because he signed the bill, that's why.
I studied medicine in France and it's so great. No tuition (even for Americans), no debt, universal healthcare, meals for €1, start working at the hospital after studying only 1 year, and a culture that's not so toxic.
I don't think anyone would study medicine in the US if they knew. (But I'm happy they don't know bc many ppl who study medicine in the US did much better than me academically)
you get paid much less though, its not the same as working in the US
@WastedBananas It depends on what kind of dr u are. U can also move to Switzerland or Dubai after graduation if max money is ur concern.
And even as a student u get healthcare at low cost that u would need to be wealthy to access in the US .
@@WastedBananas What is the use of making a lot of money you don't need if you first have to spend a lot of money you don't have?
"There is no knowledge that is not power." - Mortal Kombat
Being inconvenient for rich people is the number one cause for arrest in America, and what's worse, is the poorest, most uneducated seem to think it's the rich people they don't like on the TV, instead of their preferred rich people, or that perhaps, being a convenient bootlicker is the way to becoming rich too- temporarily embarrassed bourgeoisie one medical bill away from homelessness.
Add in politicans worried about "frivolous waste of our tax dollars" to ease student loan payments and lower the cost of education, but totally okay with 100 billion being spent on bombers and tanks that will never see the light of day EACH year because one General has it as a pet project, or your local government spending billions of federal money meant to rebuild and refurbish transportation on adding an extra lane that will, in less than 3 months, be useless and make traffic problems worse. If Business suffers, aren't supported by taxes, an army of lobbyists and lawyers will fight tooth and nail, politicians will tear off their shirts and pastors will preach on the pulpit over it. But if students suffer, who cares? They're students. They need to get a job and become the majority of the gears that make business work. As the troll says to the human child, "Shut up, you're food. Food doesn't talk."
It's all to ensure there are desperate people who will do society's dirty work and make the rich have easy lives
Damn as a current college student this video hit like a truck like I did not expect to start crying by the end of it. Adam fr dropping banger after banger with these videos
Dude. I know this isn't what you were getting at, but I went to college in a small city where the university was the primary economic driver in the city. The town folk absolutely hated the students and university. I was really involved in local politics, and town folk would refuse to host or attend events at the university. It was crazy how hard the divide between students and town folk were.
For a simple reason, Education is a Scam! These kids should go and work in the factories and mines and what not making pennies on the dollar, that is what people mean when they say Make America Great Again!
The university is basically the whole town's boss. In general, bosses are assholes, and people hate them.
@@gregmark1688 generally I would agree, but in this situation the university and the city were very separate. The city government cooperated with the university the bare minimum necessary, which wasn't much because the university is on the smaller side. The university had its own police force, which is unusual because it's such a small school. I would say the whole town's boss was the Cherokee Nation, the other large economic driver in the area.
We have that here in Waterville Maine
Colby college pretty much owns the town and they see fit how roads and infrastructure are placed in the city area.
And it pisess off everyone who is not in the campus area because they get ignored in funds and repair.
Granted the business and areas Colby have are clean neat and policed...
This happens a lot to college towns. It never makes sense, biting the hand that feeds you.
Canadian here. It’s only tangentially related, but it’s a fun anecdote about the cost of this sort of anti-intellectualism in the long term.
My small province of Saskatchewan was established about 120 years ago. At first there were a few medium-sized and growing cities, one of which was Prince Albert.
Prince Albert was once an important city, and was given the choice between getting a University, or a Federal Penitentiary. They thought the prison had more economic potential, so they chose that and the university went to Saskatoon instead. Fast forward to the present day, and Saskatoon is several times larger and more prosperous than Prince Albert, with PA largely being seen as a moribund hellhole with a really bad vibe in the air.
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Anyway… love the channel and the video is terrific. Keep it up.
Prince Albert is such a pretty town, but you're right, there's something sinister in the air among the local population.
17:49 "We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite"
that is a truly wild quote
I'm a high school teacher in a state where we fire any teacher that tries to get kids to open their minds.
The fact that any modern ape can still justify violence against another is evidence for how little progress we’ve actually made as a species
What if violence is an inescapable reality of the condition of life and will continue for billions of years
@@reikyfoxxe1847 If you consider the need for outside energy to be a form of violence, then yes. But there is no inherent need for interpersonal violence as such.
@@jonathanwarner4720 Except there is; because there will always be different people who have conflicting goals that are mutually exclusive of each other and one side will not take "No" for an answer and will not change their goals unless forced to, if even then.
@@ParagonFury Hence my comment about us not actually being that advanced as a species. Until all humans are relentless in their desire to understand the world through true consensus reality and critical thinking then yes we are doomed to repeat our mistakes as a species. It doesn't mean we can't still work towards being a better species through improving community, education, and cognition.
Well, the easy answer for why is that diverse peoples with differenf beliefs and opinions will always form an "us" vs "them" way of thinking. Justifying violence probably never will go away because so much of it is inherently psychological.
I go to UC Santa Barbara, I wasn't part of the protests, but I saw them every day and they were incredibly peaceful, and never interfered in our learning. I think our chancellor was a little more cunning (although not necessarily good) and he waited until right after the school year ended to call the cops so that there wouldn't be a huge audience for all the arrests.
Thanks for pointing out that the ultimate goal is to keep people locked in poverty, and to drive as many people into that poverty as possible.
I've always said, just look at every policy the Republican party backs as a whole, and ask what the outcome is for each policy, and we'll see a massive campaign to impoverish the working US.
I have always concluded one thing about the main founding of the USA, from its founding after the first revolution war till nowy It was always about the rich trying to cover their bottom line and keep getting richer, richer and richer. The Farmers/workers helped the American Revolution because the Rich gave them sums of Money as compensation for George Washington's Army if they enlisted. The farmers, drunks and immigrants George Washington Army's existed off, DID NOT FUCKING CARE who really was in charge at the time. They just ware swept up at the moment during the time.
Then came the industrial revolution and the greatest joke of all the "American Dream". A big fable and fantasy that can never be achieved if you do not have big money and status to start with.
Weird, all the ads telling me to go get indebted at college for some trash degree are from Democrat majorities...... Both parties suck😂😂😂😂
@@standard6502 Legitimately, I don't know what you're referring to. Could you explain? The "both parties" schtick is getting pretty old, and increasingly obviously wrong.
@@NZsaltz ignore any pendejo whose username doesn't have an avatar and ends in a series of random numbers, because it's just a cheap and fast made account that exists just to be a troll hiding amongst people too lazy to customize their easily customizable web persona. Just imagine this person scouring half the internet, looking for every odd comment to say "lol both sides, but dems especially suck" and moving on, and only responding to heated posts with "no u" sorts of posts. It's fake engagement done without any intention of serious discourse or communication. Whether it's a both, a troll, or just someone too lazy to get a proper username (and likely too lazy to actually understand the world around them), it's never worth the time to respond.
well both parties arent good, theyre both fascist/totalitarian but are the lesser of two evils, no matter who you vote for, one doesnt care abt a g3n0cide and makes oppressive laws and allows students practicing free speech to get attacked but excuse the corrupted ppl hurting them, and the other wants to make oppressive laws and deport ppl and make it a white mans country, while all the while oppressive laws and useless wars still go on, there is never a solution of the root problem bc the root problem is these people, these politicians, cops, etc. if the problems were ever fixed, an alternative to capitalism would have to be made, because capitalism doesnt put the people first. but the officials like their money and power, so it wont end. when there is capitalism, there is always suffering, and you are offered two crappy idolized 'saviors' who in the end will never be able to fix the problems because it all stems from the system, profit over people, not to mention that human rights are considered political/controversial legally, so if they wanna stop you from getting an ab0rshion they will do it, even if it is inhumane. there is no point in trying to make the claim one party is better, bc they commit the same sins as the other, they just use their words carefully, and make sure the people will always be against eachother by making a division of parties.
So you telling me US pulled their own Tiananmen incident and Americans just conveniently forgot about it. Tracks.
No we all learn about this stuff we are just led to believe times are different now
Yes and the U.S. version was much worse
The Chinese ain't did tianamen square
Viper did
historically there is plenty of military actions upon students that end in bloodbaths, in most countries, it's just the nature of educated and progressive (with streaks socialist thought in the case for capitalist countries) students trying to make their thoughts heard, and the boot of their respective governments stomping down hard on them for it, america has had plenty, mexico has one famous one too.
the truth is though that only "tiananmen" is remembered because its beneficial for the USA that china is seen as this all encompassing communist evil, hell even today it puts billions of dollars into misinformation campaigns rallying against china, the in the Philippines it was used to spread anti vax rhetoric because one of the main manufacturers of the vaccines was chinese at the time.
I've had several "would be" students ask me what college would be best to go to. I always say "Don't". "Go to a trade school instead . You'll be better off". Sure enough, every one i ever talked to actually DID go to a trade school by my suggestion , got hired within a week or two and all are actually working at jobs they love!. College is not worth the expenses wasted anymore.
True, true. ☹️
You never see any college protests at trade schools, which the rich love, because they are trained to bow their heads to the powers that be and not think critically, unlike university.
Not if you want to become a professor like myself.
“We may be producing a positively dangerous class situation, by educating so many working-class youth who would probably not make it into management but might make trouble, having had their sights raised.”
-Gordon Tullock (econ professor), speaking with James Buchanan (also an econ professor), who both advised James Miller (FTC chairman, and Budget Director for Reagan).
*we need a return to free in-state Uni!*
...this loan "forgiveness" isn't a true debt cancellation... it's a pay-off... we're being played again.
we're givin the banks a massive payout. just like bank '08-'09 bail-outs; instead of directly saving homeowners from foreclosure, the banks will take this debt off the books and use it to fund more capital investments. a "cancellation" would be to tell the banks to f right off.
least this time some of us get somethin in exchange? but, each new class/semester/degree we sign up for, still costs too much, continues to rise, & will put us right back into debt. continuing the cycle & fixing nothing.
Even in the ideal debt forgiveness scheme, without addressing the cost of education it's just like emptying the bucket without fixing the leak.
My parents: you should have finished college, like us.
Me: I made more at my last job than a lot of the college graduates, especially the younger people who are also now loaded with debt you didn't have as much of and could easily pay off, along with your cheaper housing & other expenses as a % of your income.
Also my parents: lazy kids nowadays don't even want to work, or grow up and start families like we did.
a lot of college students made a loy more money attheir first job than you did and learned a lot
some students also learned logic / statistics and a lot about cognitive biases.
@@PavelKrupets
Buddy don't be insulting other people's intelligence when you can't even spell correctly
@@Juicedbelmont buddy if you have nothing to say and can only find spelling mistakes, тады ідзі на хуй
@@Juicedbelmont that's all you have to say? nothing directly related to the topic?
America took Pink Floyd a little too seriously when they said "we don't need no education"
That song is supposed to be a protest, it was even banned in South Africa after anti-Apartheid protests.
We don't need no thought control
@@VanNessy97”We don’t need no [means of questioning our wealthy overlords].”
Fixed it for you.
Hey cops, leave them kids alone! (Yes, I know it's actually "teachers" in the lyrics; I'm making a point)
The entire album is strongly anti-war. Pink had his life destroyed by a war he wasn't even a part of. It took his dad away
It's insane how some conservatives are using Palestinian or "Little Gazas" as slurs against protestors/politicians they don't like
We're living in a dystopian nightmare.
People in power who went to school, went to school at a lower price point than it is today.
The "we" doing all the horrid things are no surprise, rich conservatives.
Imagine thinking only 1 party fucked shit up 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@standard6502he didn’t say republicans.
It's not only rich "conservatives" or whatever.
It's the rich and the powerful across the spectrum.
Remember that Harris refused to let Palestinians speak.
Adam really had a slew of topics gifted to him over the years and just said _welp, time to cross these off the list_ and gave us a ton of quality content in a week
Honestly, it's just another example of making young people pay for the Boomer generation's handouts.
and then boomers complain about handouts like student debt forgiveness
Infiltration of colleges not only made them super-expensive, but it also made the majority of degrees in America completely vacuous.
So weird because I stare into the abyss at the wall like a veteran BECAUSE of university.
I’m glad that Adam can say what he wants on this platform. Truly the best content he’s ever done, and I say that as a big fan of his other work.
Yeah, it's just a shame he can't use the word 'ruins' any more (I assume), bc that is absolutely what he's doing to capitalism, these days
@@gregmark1688Why not?
@@thedottinator4383 The name "Adam Ruins Everything" is owned by whoever it was he was working for when he made that show. They'd probably threaten to sue him if he used anything similar to that name, I guess.
I hope Adam or his editor(s) see this post and remember to cite their sources in the corner of the video like he did in his other shows. They added a layer of authenticity.
It also hates college graduates.
Yeah. I graduated from community college a couple years ago, and none of the companies I applied for wanted to hire me because I don’t have the experience they want me to have…because I was busy going to college.
18:32 and unfortunately, 20k is still pretty cheap for a college, most are like 30k or more for tuition, and then add in room and board and you can often buy a house for the same price as a bachelor’s degree. The worst is when you look at tuition, see it’s 20k or something, think “oh that’s surprisingly cheap”, then realize it’s per semester or quarter 🥲
I'm a college student living on my own while working full-time. Recently, my job cut my hours from 35-40 per week to just 4.5 to 5.5 hours, which has made it hard to cover my bills. To help with my financial situation, I applied for food stamps but was told I don't qualify because I need to work at least 20 hours a week as a student. This feels unreasonable, especially since my job has limited hours to save on payroll before the holidays.
When I asked for alternatives, they suggested I file for unemployment due to reduced hours. However, they also asked if I'd consider quitting school to take a full-time job.
If you're in a similar situation, know you're not alone-the system can be incredibly harsh. Don't give up on your education, even if you're pressured to make tough choices. Just be cautious about what you say in these situations, as it can impact your eligibility for assistance.
Okay I'll listen to you
The reason food stamps have work requirements is to force poor people into minimum wage jobs
So early the prof is still unpacking his bags
And we’ll also tell parents to yell at their college kids about how they need a job even though they barely have time to themselves as it is.
4 years of studying and working full time was certainly not fun.
I've never understand it when certain groups try to frame the conversation about student loans like college students went off on a 4 year vacation on a cruise ship and should have to now work extra hard to pay back their time of decadence and leisure...
At current prices, there is no way in hell a college student can 'work their way' through college.
@@lodragan I thought 'work you way' through college meant working to pay rent and food.
Still walking out with huge loans.
Powerful people fear a populace that can think critically for themselves.
I'm pretty sure colleges tell their students what and how to think without contest.
@@matthewsemenuk7544 Have you been to college? Legitimate question.
My biggest culture shock about coming to US of A has always been; parents tell their kids that they have to move out when they turn 18. It is even scarier that the trend is catching on around the world.
I have always seen this as a trick by big companies to keep family poor. "Why split everyone's wealth in one whole family, when you can go out and pay the same bills alone?"
The college book company is screwing over students, and the college (not the professors) is letting them. The price of book skyrocketed. Buy used? Nope they'd come out with a new edition where the pages and problems will be different. Share a book with roomy? Nope. They'll put online homework questions that require a passcode. No sharing.
Colleges could put a chock hold on these practices. They could use their leverage and they turn a blind eye. Some professors legit look at the prices of the book before they choose one but their hands are tied.....by the F-ing greed bastards at publishing companies.
If they wanted you to be educated education would be free. If they wanted you to be healthy healthcare would be free.
it was so infuriating actually being on UT Austin’s campus in the spring and then see how the media was treating our specific campus protests, there just this giant disconnect between reality and what they were saying about us and the cause we were fighting for. i know MULTIPLE people that got hurt for literally just being near the protests, trying to get to class. multiple of my friends got arrested for STANDING TOO CLOSE TO COPS. it was infuriating, absolutely infuriating, seeing people say we deserved that treatment. we didn’t.
as a photojournalist
who helped cover the protests about the war on Palestine in Pittsburgh on Pitt Campus, I will say the university made sure to ask the Pittsburgh police to stand in DURING A GRADUATION CEREMONY. When two kids up to even four kids were arrested at which some were even graduates.
Lowe's has had a tuition reimbursement program for years, but they're getting rid of it later this year. Hundreds of students around the country are about to leave Lowe's
Excellent video. I am a Native Californian. Back in the early 80s when I went to JC it was $5 dollars a unit! Not even close now. The University where I graduated from I believe is now over $40k without room and board a year! It was $6k a year in my senior year. 😮😮😮
i asked someone to name one college protest that was attacked by police and and history sided with the police, all the did in responce was insult me
Ah, good ‘ol Ad Hominum.
Columbia student here: the cops and third party security contractors on campus were wayyyy more threatening than the encampment. The encampment was full of people mostly just sitting around, talking, occasionally chanting or dancing, sometimes a student would give a speech or there would be a debate. If it wasn't for the escalation of the university i believe it would have remained peaceful.
I saw these students attacking other people, especially Jews.
@@jessielemieux2346What, like Jewish Voice for Peace?
@@glennwatson3313ahh yes you seeing things that never happened is your schizophrenia again.
Please take your medication as prescribed I know it's hard when you feel better and wonder why you have to take them.
@@glennwatson3313Why is it that the most anti-Semitic people trying to accuse other people of anti-Semitism all the time? I mean it's not just the projection with your lies, it's the fact that they're such stupid and obvious lies
@@emoryogglethorp8180 Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining. I saw with my own two eyes on multiple occasions, student protestors attacking passerbys and Jews. I'm not lying.
Adam, the customer hasn't "always been right" since the 90s. Big business dropped that facade and has figured out how to make money without providing value.
I benefited from the original WWII Montgomery Bill because my father was a WWII Vet. Dependents had it extended to them as well.👍👍
I am 61 and have found this my whole life. People are threatened in US Society when you have any modicum of analytical thinking! 😮😮😮
This is big and yet people aren't informed about it.
Someone had to say it!!
Thank you for not being afraid of talking openly about these things. It's important, especially with the people on top wanting to censor or distort the reality of things.
The more I learn about the history of the United States, the more I dislike my parents generation, and the more I dislike it. The United States is single-handedly one of the most two faced nations I have ever seen.
Then you don’t know many countries at all.
@@vondas1480yeah we get it from our parents who we rebelled from
Last year, I took an AP course where I wrote an essay about how College Board was evil, and since they ran the program, they failed me on that essay.
this one hit really hard. makes me wonder if there's anyway that I could put my 'useless' degree to work in a way that the bourgeoise wouldn't want me to, now that I understand how hard they tried to keep me from getting it. if college used to be just for doctors and lawyers, then anyone who went to college to study anything else, even something useless like art or english, is a person that those in power know they cannot control, because we've devoted ourselves to thinking abstractly. now i get it
I actually had an extended interaction with Tom Cotton back in 1999; he was one of the dorm counselors at a program in Arkansas called Governor's School that was designed to give select students the opportunity to study in a specific program in a college environment for the summer term and was a really great experience. That being said, Mr. Cotton was my "R.A." for this program and I'll say this: He was a bit of a prick who enjoyed pushing people around back then and I don't think that core aspect of his personality has changed much in the couple of decades since.
I went to University of the Arts... everyone go look up what happened to UArts and how they fucked over all their students. Hahahahaha...
The name alone should've given away what a waste of is 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@standard6502 the instructors there (before they all left for better teaching positions) taught me skills that got me a job that paid $85k per year... but go off :)
@@standard6502saying that the arts are useless really shows a lack of understanding of what the arts are.
Also let's not forget that once you graduate there might not even be jobs in your field, senior engineers are even struggling to find work much less engineering graduates. My college's solution was to force us to take a career class with advice that works.... Assuming you are a white male in the 1950s were back then all you had to do was shake the managers hand
Im attending sfsu and we just got news that our university is beginning to divest from several arms manufacturers, i didn't do anything to make this happen but I'm proud of my student union for fighting for this and making it happen. But my eyes are on gaza and im keeping vigilant on my university so they follow through on their promises.
I always enjoy your content, Adam, and like a lot of what you say... the main point is awesome, and to be listened to.
Also, your little joke about Kreb cycles alone can open up even more study for those of us who are willing to just dive into the random jokes ya make.
Thank you for giving us info in a great comedic and factual way, and for your own research that you do to make this entertaining for all of us.
I started watching your content since your Adam Ruins Everything, as many people have.
Sorry for ranting. Keep up the great work!!!!
Our daughter did her undergrad degree from the same state school we did. Our fault, she grew up going to Volleyball games there. One class cost what a semester cost for us in the 80s. Her books did too Then she got a Master degree. Made the undergrad look inexpensive. The amount we saved for education since her birth did not quite project college cost as well as it should have.
They hate students but force them to go to college to get a degree to get a job
Read Herbert gans functions of poverty
College Students deserves respect in America.
Live In a college town without working there or being a student, you will change your tune. There is a reason why “town vs. gown” exists, students treat most of them like a cheap rental car.
"If i have 10 friends, and 10 of my friends die in Vietnam, i have no friends" that got me good
My rage build was interrupted with a classically conditioned phobic response to the mention of Kreb Cycle.
Thanks for drawing attention to this!
Some high tech factories have actually moved to Germany and other European countries because they could not get enough engineers in the USA. This attack on education in the USA is going to drive out a lot of companies that won't have the ability to stay.
That is the true fucking Irony here, The USA and its companies became more depedant on foreign outside USA countries because of their attack on education system. A system mind you that was intended to get high qualified workers? The same workers that would have made those fucking elite rich more richer anyway? The more I hear about things like this, the more i freaking want that the American dollar becomse worthless, so the Right eventually has nothing. But that would too naive to think off me that the rich would then worse off.
The fact that poor, working and middle-class white Americans think that billionaires such as Trump and Murdoch actually understand and give a f*ck about them and their needs, amuses me to no end.
I'm not sure why that amuses you instead of infuriating you or inspiring you to talk to the people you know about creating moral fusion so we can all be lifted! Instead, what you're laughing that you won't get anywhere either?
@@jacquelinehembrey4825 Where did I state that it neither infuriated or inspired me to do anything? Oh, that's right - I didn't. 🤨
Please don't presume to know what's on my mind, or in my heart. And if you'd sincerely like to know, then next time, just ask me.
@@Noneya5555 I can read. You said it "amuses me to no end."!
@@Noneya5555 If you were mad, you could have said. If you were inspired, you could done something, instead you act like it's a joke!!!
@@jacquelinehembrey4825 I never denied stating that it amuses me to no end, or that you could read.
I went to four different colleges; never finished a degree. But my college experience was valuable because I actually learned some stuff, and that part--taking classes and learning things--seems to get ignored a lot. It's supposed to be an intellectually enriching experience.