The Biggest Scam in America

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  • @VALUETAINMENT
    @VALUETAINMENT  2 роки тому +12

    Get the PDF here: valuetainment.com/the-biggest-scam-in-america/

  • @unbelievable9750
    @unbelievable9750 3 роки тому +611

    I wasn't aware colleges do not pay taxes. This makes me absolutely sick. My student loans are earning $42 a day in interest. Absolutely disgusting.

    • @TheBandit7613
      @TheBandit7613 3 роки тому +26

      I make over 6 figures a year as a union heavy equipment operator.
      I have ZERO debt and hundreds of thousands in savings.
      Need help? Just ask....

    • @unbelievable9750
      @unbelievable9750 3 роки тому +11

      @@TheBandit7613 I have an accounting degree, but it's still not worth the amount of debt lol. I always thought heavy equipment would be fun. I heard they make tons of money.
      I've done well for myself, but I'm still looking at other options. I'm still young. How long have you been operating heavy equipment?

    • @ursulasmith6402
      @ursulasmith6402 3 роки тому +19

      No, colleges belong to the elites. Of course, they don't pay taxes. Harvard is skull and bones, so is Yale.

    • @joeykabs1150
      @joeykabs1150 3 роки тому +2

      @@TheBandit7613 how

    • @fuckgoogleforever
      @fuckgoogleforever 3 роки тому +11

      @@joeykabs1150 He doesn't have hundreds of thousands in savings.
      He's flat out lying.
      Specifically because anybody with that much of a golden egg wouldn't have it in savings. There's tons of other places to have money where they aren't losing money based solely on inflation alone.
      A savings account is almost always low yield, the target inflation is 2% in the US. Anything in a savings account is literally going down in value. Also banks are only insured up to $250,000 so anything more than that in a bank account is just stupid.

  • @Jfdas123
    @Jfdas123 5 років тому +780

    Spent $1,500 to get my CDL-A at the age of 21, worked at a company for 3 years making around $70k/year, lived with my parents and save most of my money, then I started my own trucking company now Im making over $100k/year. My cousin got a psychology degree from a UC over $40k in debt and works for me.

    • @dalton9493
      @dalton9493 5 років тому +23

      How much did it cost you to get your biz up and running?

    • @telecastinater
      @telecastinater 5 років тому +14

      Awesome rock on brother !

    • @ericclaeyborn7008
      @ericclaeyborn7008 5 років тому +32

      So, you're brother is now your personal psychologist? JK... :) Good going!

    • @willieguapo
      @willieguapo 5 років тому +6

      You're an inspiration 👍

    • @ebervazquez9098
      @ebervazquez9098 5 років тому +66

      I did 4 years. Graduated with my bachelors in biology of science with Honors from FAU. I couldn't get a job that would.pay atleast 20$ an hour. So i studied for less then six months and got my roofing license and now making over 100k a year and not working every day.

  • @justinspencer9894
    @justinspencer9894 5 років тому +1901

    "$2000 in school books - which is a SCAM within a SCAM" truer words have never been spoken 😂😂😂😂

    • @dripkid89
      @dripkid89 5 років тому +31

      Lol unbelievable all that2 money for a dam book these people are crooks

    • @elgringoec
      @elgringoec 5 років тому +23

      Yeah when I went to U the average book was $15 and a really special one was $35. And I thought THAT was expensive!
      It's absolutely a racket! 🤯

    • @infinitetundra
      @infinitetundra 5 років тому +41

      Shit most people will never even read those books.

    • @jamesw4198
      @jamesw4198 5 років тому +9

      Get the same book for less on Amazon lol

    • @the_gilded_age_phoenix8717
      @the_gilded_age_phoenix8717 5 років тому +32

      I had a worthless required Business Communications class...where the professor was in on a textbook scam. He had selected chapters from a textbook published by the university, priced it at $120 and required it for the class. These selected chapters came from an old book that you could buy whole on Amazon for about $10.

  • @michelleshaner8849
    @michelleshaner8849 4 роки тому +284

    I want to know how we can hold colleges accountable. I have 2 children in college right now. 80% of their classes are ONLINE. Not only that, there are NO Professors involved. They are basically teaching themselves for $23,000 a semester!

    • @Gothiqueluv
      @Gothiqueluv 3 роки тому +13

      Ouch. I feel ya

    • @dpixvid
      @dpixvid 3 роки тому +22

      For a piece of paper and a resume entry. First job after college is when you really start to learn in chosen field... I wouldn’t do college these days... but you have to be sensible and strategic which they don’t teach in high school or college.

    • @thommysides4616
      @thommysides4616 3 роки тому +8

      Boy is your family getting the shaft!!!

    • @TonyHernandez-wv5vi
      @TonyHernandez-wv5vi 3 роки тому +1

      Ha it’s your fault tho should have looked into it more.

    • @quietcontender6969
      @quietcontender6969 3 роки тому +4

      Alot of colleges are teaching yourselves in the first place. Trust me most teachers are ass who know thr topic nut can't teach to save their family.

  • @shellshock8505
    @shellshock8505 4 роки тому +622

    I’m 18 and my older brother always told me that college is a scam and most of the people that earn a degree aren’t smart enough to get a job on top of their 100k debt. I just graduated from highschool and I’m heading to lineman school in 3 weeks to learn a trade and the starting salary ranges from 80k - 120k a year. After I save up I’m starting a business or investing in something that I think will make me money. I’m one step ahead of the game with no financial responsibilities and a long life to live. This video should be an eye opener to many high schoolers that think they’re obligated to go to college.

    • @lasenyo7705
      @lasenyo7705 3 роки тому +42

      You won't get paid anywhere near that as a starting salary but yeah college can be a scam depending on where you want to work

    • @1k59j1
      @1k59j1 3 роки тому +11

      @@lasenyo7705 not to mention you have your apprenticeship and certifications to go through. This level of pay is attainable in 5-10 years depending on how you play your cards. But you better be damn sure you know your shit, there’s a reason for the hazard pay. I’m not trying to shit on you, I think you have a great idea of what you want to do and you sound like a smart kid, just make sure your expectations are within reality or else you’ll be that guy that can’t stop living in the past saying “oh I could have made this” or “I should have done that”

    • @supermanprime1281
      @supermanprime1281 3 роки тому +4

      💯💯💯

    • @bobanderson6656
      @bobanderson6656 3 роки тому +15

      @@lasenyo7705 He won't miss it by much, but you're right. That 80-120 is post apprenticeship.

    • @bobanderson6656
      @bobanderson6656 3 роки тому +9

      Sad thing is, you'll be among the ones paying for the baristas' student loans

  • @gregoryfortner6038
    @gregoryfortner6038 5 років тому +804

    I have a 2-year technical degree. And made more money than my sister who has a Masters degree. She said that is not fair. I told her that is a reality.

    • @Trrippy_Shades
      @Trrippy_Shades 5 років тому +13

      Ur so cool

    • @infamouscrusader3363
      @infamouscrusader3363 5 років тому +44

      Right. All because you do more doesn't always mean you'll get more. That's just a phenomena in the world.

    • @rjgn4054
      @rjgn4054 5 років тому +9

      what was the 2 year degree for, just curious

    • @gregoryfortner6038
      @gregoryfortner6038 5 років тому +36

      @@rjgn4054 Industrial Maintenance

    • @rjgn4054
      @rjgn4054 5 років тому +8

      @@gregoryfortner6038 oh cool, thanks

  • @pdusainc
    @pdusainc 5 років тому +577

    Learn a trade, start a business....if you fail...start something else...repeat until you find success

    • @jarrydvaneeden1194
      @jarrydvaneeden1194 5 років тому +14

      words of wisdom

    • @adrianpedraza8612
      @adrianpedraza8612 5 років тому +1

      learn a trade > what do you man by that?

    • @TheJoker083
      @TheJoker083 5 років тому +11

      M V shhhhhhhhh schools and the government wouldn’t want you telling people that

    • @zyzzer
      @zyzzer 5 років тому +24

      @@adrianpedraza8612 trades like training to be a plumber, electrician, HVAC technician, etc

    • @donaldlove4039
      @donaldlove4039 5 років тому +6

      Learn, start, fail, repeat...

  • @paulbroderick8438
    @paulbroderick8438 4 роки тому +550

    College is required for professions such as engineering, medicine and the law. Trades such as auto mechanic, plumber and electrician can be covered through apprenticeships and on the job training. Oh I forgot, America considers being a 'tradesperson' as low level until you need one!

    • @IM12111
      @IM12111 3 роки тому +67

      Yup. And majority of public schools and teachers say “Go to college” meanwhile a mechanic earns so much more than them.

    • @MoltenMetalGod7
      @MoltenMetalGod7 3 роки тому +42

      People turn their nose up at so many good paying blue collar jobs (good union jobs in northern states) that start off making more than the crappy standard 45-50k office job basically fetching coffee. Plus your trade is portable easier to start your own company when you are ready.

    • @duntno1226
      @duntno1226 3 роки тому +43

      Trade people are more way more valuable then English teachers, psych majors, hell maybe even athletes

    • @mrknarf4438
      @mrknarf4438 3 роки тому +8

      I'm not even sure it should be required for those professions anymore: all the knowledge can be learnt online from the best in the world, yes, you could have in person exams and practical lessons, but then it would be very similar to a trade, just longer... No reason to pay that much or have to sit in class for hours everyday

    • @fondcello1994
      @fondcello1994 3 роки тому +1

      @@IM12111 YES! Is the rule of offer-demand applied to jobs vs wages

  • @GoodVibes-mr5ik
    @GoodVibes-mr5ik 5 років тому +215

    I live in California, and some employers are actually asking for a bachelor's degree in order to apply for receptionist positions- it's sad. These positions do not pay above 30k btw. I've seen them listed on Craigslist and Indeed.
    I have a 4 year degree, and I don't regret it, but I recommend you learn a skill.
    A degree *helps* employ you, but a skill makes you valuable.

    • @nina99grateful29
      @nina99grateful29 5 років тому +12

      Good Vibes, good advise, I can say that because I have a bachelor degree in science, license electrician and plumber make more than I and no debt.

    • @GoodVibes-mr5ik
      @GoodVibes-mr5ik 5 років тому +15

      @A Person I speak Spanish, and it is still hard. They always try to look for something where they can low ball your pay. You have a degree, GREAT, but you lack 20 years of experience. Consequently, we can o ly offer you minimum wage.

    • @cfoster6804
      @cfoster6804 5 років тому +1

      @@GoodVibes-mr5ik Yeah the amount of experience these companies want is outrageous these days.

    • @freedinner886
      @freedinner886 5 років тому +3

      College breeds slaves
      Big time
      Sad truth

    • @freedinner886
      @freedinner886 5 років тому

      @@generalaccount6531 make an e commerce store
      Import from overseas
      Get a piece of the action
      Make a million dollars in 2 years
      College is for slaves

  • @NateOBrien
    @NateOBrien 6 років тому +3674

    I'm sitting in class as I watch this video. I'm half tempted to stand up and walk out right now!

    • @pocketman5510
      @pocketman5510 6 років тому +390

      You already fucked up, you're already in the hole. You should finish unless you only just started

    • @pocketman5510
      @pocketman5510 6 років тому +42

      No entrepreneur would say that

    • @pocketman5510
      @pocketman5510 6 років тому +55

      This exactly, if you're already in - take advantage

    • @lizbethbrady8308
      @lizbethbrady8308 6 років тому +65

      Walk out.

    • @muraddiab6393
      @muraddiab6393 6 років тому +49

      I have class in 2 hours and I'm debating whether I should go, or just go to the library.

  • @rmisionero
    @rmisionero 5 років тому +882

    Since I graduated from college, I have been an advocate against going to college. It is a waste of money and time, and it is the biggest scam of all time.

    • @whatthebleep2810
      @whatthebleep2810 5 років тому +83

      Me too! I received two bachelors degrees (business and computer science), and I don’t need any of it for my current job. Employers won’t even look at me for technical jobs (due to no experience or certification). I’m pissed that I wasted time and money ($55,000 and now $80,000 after interest)!!

    • @Mar-cs8ny
      @Mar-cs8ny 5 років тому +5

      So very, very true!

    • @abrahampalmer1153
      @abrahampalmer1153 5 років тому

      rmisionero indeed

    • @triparadox.c
      @triparadox.c 5 років тому +28

      It's true yet it's a mistake as well.. For you to be able to work, the employers will still be selective by seeing the grades, degrees, and experiences obtained during those days you are in colleges. Yes, in the final selection phase, the degree may not actually play any significant part, but it's the 'gateway' for you to pass 1st filtration.
      Unless you're one of the few geniuses. Please don't include them in this discussion since they won't be paying at all thanks to scholarships.

    • @12eveal
      @12eveal 5 років тому +2

      @rmisionero | What did you get a degree in and are you working now? If so, doing what?

  • @shaylynsg8967
    @shaylynsg8967 3 роки тому +114

    It's my understanding that a person can have many degrees , and go out to apply for a job , and be denied as too over qualificated, what the heck !!!

    • @CarbonJackal13
      @CarbonJackal13 3 роки тому +4

      Very true indeed.

    • @raymondfrye5017
      @raymondfrye5017 3 роки тому +17

      That happens when hiring is a scam. Pharmaceuticals, in Puerto Rico, generally saved positions for sons and daughters of politicians.

    • @valeriew4833
      @valeriew4833 3 роки тому +1

      @@raymondfrye5017 Shame. Nepotism

    • @jimlyon7276
      @jimlyon7276 3 роки тому +5

      @Shay SG - Oh yes a LOT of petty jealous people who aren't prepared to do any work on their own self development hate others who are "too intelligent" & start indulging in "Crab Bucket Mentality (you can Google that ). Twice I had to walk off jobs & once made redundant because of such back stabbing/Empire building/ETC. a$$h*les ! -So you had better watch your back as the worst are insecure lower level supervisors !

    • @richardbowers3647
      @richardbowers3647 3 роки тому +2

      Yes, yes!!! Don't forget that after one spends the time 'degreeing' they have become older too!!!

  • @courtneydurham8429
    @courtneydurham8429 5 років тому +381

    What I don't understand is why I need to take English 101 or Humanities to learn how to become an Ultrasound Technician or a Car Mechanic? Why do I need to waste 4 years of my life when I can learn the skills essential to my trade in 2 years or less? It's about learning a skill so I can earn money to live. Academia for academic sake is great if you are training to become a teacher that will train the next generation.

    • @Alesedit
      @Alesedit 5 років тому +12

      Just social liberal indoctrination

    • @frankrizzo5262
      @frankrizzo5262 5 років тому +6

      A smart man once said, “ education is the kindling of a flame, not a filling of a vessel”.

    • @thecapone45
      @thecapone45 4 роки тому +2

      Cause government said so.

    • @YouSoCute2000
      @YouSoCute2000 4 роки тому +4

      yes exactly!!!!! l have always said this!!

    • @Ashurbanipal7446
      @Ashurbanipal7446 4 роки тому +6

      Courtney Durham no good reason. College needs to be a place for scholars and that’s it. Everything else can be replaced with trade specific schools and apprenticeships.

  • @danoarmstrong2597
    @danoarmstrong2597 5 років тому +2422

    Funny how these schools that teach and preach socialism, love capitalism when it comes to them making money.

    • @noelarios9410
      @noelarios9410 5 років тому +34

      Preach it‼️‼️

    • @namenotfound8747
      @namenotfound8747 5 років тому +46

      we have socialism in our capitalism, they aren't two different things, in most countries they are intertwine. In you didn't know

    • @reginapontes5672
      @reginapontes5672 5 років тому +7

      Bingo!

    • @xxGamerX-cc2ho
      @xxGamerX-cc2ho 5 років тому +7

      @@namenotfound8747 Really?

    • @williamwingo4740
      @williamwingo4740 5 років тому +15

      My undergraduate alma mater is like that. Several professors there have made the news with statements or incidents that are outright socialist, communist, or just plain crazy--but they sure don't mind hitting the alumni up for money.
      The last financial figures I saw indicated that it costs about $75,000 per year--but that's OK, because almost everybody is on some kind of scholarship or student assistance. That makes it fair and equitable.
      Plus, for the elitists among us, they still have Greek fraternities and sororities.
      ***Note added 20190820: And they now have a female president.

  • @Bookworm-ye9qi
    @Bookworm-ye9qi 5 років тому +104

    As a store manager, I'm not impressed by a college degree. I'm impressed by people who show up to work everyday

  • @nealbeach4947
    @nealbeach4947 3 роки тому +314

    A wise man once said "not everyone is supposed to go to college, someone has to drive the trucks". If you make everybody special then nobody is.

    • @Pr3ct
      @Pr3ct 3 роки тому +64

      The truck driver is making $90K/year with no college debt.

    • @thedominator5620
      @thedominator5620 3 роки тому +2

      I'm dead right now XD

    • @mechanomics2649
      @mechanomics2649 3 роки тому +17

      Unfortunately employers of skilled labor are wrapped up in it too. Many of them won't hire you without a degree.

    • @Gothiqueluv
      @Gothiqueluv 3 роки тому +23

      I drove that truck for years. I would much rather go to college. Truck drivers don't make as much as you think. Getting 2 days off a MONTH is not a way to live.

    • @Gothiqueluv
      @Gothiqueluv 3 роки тому +11

      @@Pr3ct What driver do you know that's making 90 grand? If you're an owner Op, yeah you can make that much, but you've got 40-50 grand worth of expenses. I was a driver for years. No thanks.

  • @EddyGraphic
    @EddyGraphic 6 років тому +767

    I realized college was a joke the first time I attended a class, I've been going to college for almost 3 years now and honestly I could have learned everything I have learned doing google searches for an hour.

    • @killjoyhog
      @killjoyhog 6 років тому +64

      100% agree on that one.... mostly a waste of time that you will never get back.... I learned way more on my own than on college.

    • @juancapomasi9046
      @juancapomasi9046 6 років тому +54

      Maybe you should've gone to a good college

    • @springer-qb4dv
      @springer-qb4dv 6 років тому +32

      perhaps college is for people who don't know what they want to do - people who do, drop out of college, as it's waste of time for them

    • @LeonOnn
      @LeonOnn 6 років тому +8

      I agree 99%. That one percent is because u get some industry contacts and some very small resources can't be found on Google that u can get from universities.

    • @springer-qb4dv
      @springer-qb4dv 6 років тому +16

      Of course rich and powerful or rich and powerful wanna-bees have excellent reason to go to top ivy league school - to make connection with other rich and powerful. That's the real reason to attend top level college such as harvard etc.

  • @mel.affiliate
    @mel.affiliate 5 років тому +350

    College Courses in 2019:
    Assignment - watch this UA-cam video on the subject matter and answer these questions.
    Me: my degree is backed by UA-cam

    • @kaylamolino3223
      @kaylamolino3223 4 роки тому +16

      And it is free too

    • @Diego-zu9jm
      @Diego-zu9jm 4 роки тому +19

      Agreed. Im taking economics and every single assignment week by week requires us to watch a youtube video and answer a few question. That’s literally our entire course

    • @AccordVR
      @AccordVR 4 роки тому +5

      Melissa Castelly basically.

    • @pacific322
      @pacific322 4 роки тому +8

      Gordon Payne Where did your facts come from?

    • @mel.affiliate
      @mel.affiliate 4 роки тому +1

      Ghetto Lisa thanks for sharing, I will be checking out CourseHero lol

  • @zoranznidaric4518
    @zoranznidaric4518 6 років тому +322

    Best education system is relationship between older experienced worker and apprentice.

    • @PlaneMechEsq
      @PlaneMechEsq 5 років тому +5

      I agree, but not everybody have those family or social connections. It used to be that if your father is in a certain profession, you can expect to be in the same profession. With the education system, some less fortunate folks can have a shot at learning a trade without the social connections.

    • @locotx215
      @locotx215 5 років тому +5

      One of the pros of nepotism

    • @heyaisdabomb
      @heyaisdabomb 5 років тому +1

      Depends on what your doing. Some jobs, especially and math and science based jobs, need a formal education first.

    • @theQuestion626
      @theQuestion626 5 років тому +5

      well my father was a complete drunk and a fuck off. so there goes your "theory", Margaret Mead.

    • @theQuestion626
      @theQuestion626 5 років тому +1

      @LagiNaLangAko23 in America such are called unions.
      And those have been on the decline as of late.

  • @ariziman
    @ariziman 3 роки тому +85

    I saw this coming 40 years ago, along with education stepping aside for indoctrination. I was an educator.

    • @mechanomics2649
      @mechanomics2649 3 роки тому

      I mean it was already going on 40 years ago.

    • @GoodmanMIke59
      @GoodmanMIke59 3 роки тому

      As was I, taught 16 yrs (VOC ED), as an engineer, ages 38-54. Finished up as a steam plant operator at UNCG.

  • @final_counter8836
    @final_counter8836 5 років тому +217

    I was able to learn more on UA-cam within 30 minutes compared to the stress and amount of meaning less things I have to do in school for 7 hours

    • @cantesito6043
      @cantesito6043 5 років тому +1

      College makes u social, and not an incompetent

    • @jrloyal2594
      @jrloyal2594 5 років тому +1

      UA-cam academy 💯😁

    • @aundrayperkins9796
      @aundrayperkins9796 5 років тому +6

      I'm a proud high school dropout in the 9th grade. now 14 years later I own multiple properties several small businesses, and work a job part time. I'm rent free, car payment free, debt free. I do not even have established credit. I will be retired from working part time by 35. I can't say the same for all my buddies who told me I'd never be anything but a minimum wage slave forever. One of them even had to borrow money from me twice. Another one, I sold a used Lexus to for 3,000 bucks, and he had to make payments, wtf. But who am I, I'm just that high school dropout. who won really.

    • @maxabelmezaarauco2633
      @maxabelmezaarauco2633 5 років тому

      This is so true. I learnt english in six months. I can understand native speakers clearly. I think I'm fluent.

    • @maxabelmezaarauco2633
      @maxabelmezaarauco2633 5 років тому

      @Sentient being So true, I mean, there a lot of platforms to make contact with amazin people. I think that we have to think like that if we want to make part of this generation.

  • @cnyled
    @cnyled 5 років тому +305

    Finally someone uses the right word "scam" to spotlight what colleges are

  • @TheToxicGunn3r
    @TheToxicGunn3r 5 років тому +870

    I learn more from researching in my free time on the internet then i did at college

    • @asunsetnameddesire2898
      @asunsetnameddesire2898 5 років тому +17

      FACTS!!

    • @davidpierce9949
      @davidpierce9949 5 років тому +21

      *** than

    • @MrTibbsLive
      @MrTibbsLive 5 років тому +8

      The absolute truth.

    • @solomonking5097
      @solomonking5097 5 років тому +22

      I never been to college but keep up with most of my friends that went and graduated colleges. Some say damn, why wont you become a history teachers? Because im not qualified and I must go by there educational systems smh...

    • @Sejikan
      @Sejikan 4 роки тому +1

      @@solomonking5097 feelsbadman

  • @Geez01
    @Geez01 3 роки тому +44

    It stopped being about education when it turned into a for profit business. Years ago we dropped our son off at a college campus in PA along with thousands of other kids... as we were unloading his personals I overheard one of the senior staff members remark ( half of these people will drop out within a year ) it was like she was saying we have your money now you can go.

    • @ReachingHigher001
      @ReachingHigher001 2 роки тому +1

      😮

    • @emiemilia6219
      @emiemilia6219 Рік тому +2

      Anybody that is willing to say that (whether to your face or) behind your back, is vile trash. I am incredibly sorry that you've experienced that. I hope your children are doing better.

  • @LesterDiaz
    @LesterDiaz 6 років тому +5928

    Education will get you a job, self education will make you rich. When I learned this it changed everything for me, went from broke to nice living with my internet businesses. Invest in yourself no matter your age.

    • @awerbpo
      @awerbpo 6 років тому +187

      Good to see your hard work pay off. Keep grinding!

    • @tteokbokkigalaxy4517
      @tteokbokkigalaxy4517 6 років тому +16

      I'm Jack's Nipples ye deffo a good think to ask

    • @destroyerdev6650
      @destroyerdev6650 6 років тому +22

      This is also my path!

    • @LesterDiaz
      @LesterDiaz 6 років тому +179

      Best piece of advice I can give, focus on 1 skill you want to learn that you believe can make you 6 figures and stick to it for 6-12 months. Give it all you got and don’t be distracted by shiny objects. This is exactly what I did, but it took me a few years to understand it, I got a few vids on my channel that might help the few of you asking how. Like I said self-education and discipline is what defines success in any business.

    • @12349Nitin
      @12349Nitin 6 років тому +36

      - Tai lopez lol

  • @jacqueslefave4296
    @jacqueslefave4296 4 роки тому +626

    Also, avoid any major that has the word, "studies" attached to it.

    • @victorsimionato6563
      @victorsimionato6563 4 роки тому +39

      this man is smart

    • @jacqueslefave4296
      @jacqueslefave4296 4 роки тому +28

      @@victorsimionato6563 If that was for me, thanks, some of the mistakes I have made were my own, others I have seen others do, I just hate to see others go through the same. The education establishment has a bloated institution to maintain, and they're doing it at the expense of the taxpayers and the futures of the next generation.

    • @bcnicholas123
      @bcnicholas123 4 роки тому +55

      Absolutely right man. Colleges have developed so many fake majors just to milk money out of impressionable young students. They are absolutely *not* looking out for us

    • @doomguy8324
      @doomguy8324 4 роки тому +3

      Amen

    • @samlawhorn
      @samlawhorn 4 роки тому +17

      But what about Studies Studies?

  • @p.c.h.6721
    @p.c.h.6721 4 роки тому +420

    Waste of money, that’s how I feel about my college education, take the money and invest it in yourself, don’t give it to the college.

    • @estefanigam8888
      @estefanigam8888 4 роки тому +6

      Yesss!!

    • @lasenyo7705
      @lasenyo7705 3 роки тому +7

      Depends on what you want to do in lifie. If you want to enter corporate america go to college. A photographer or something dont go

    • @styroyou
      @styroyou 3 роки тому

      VAXICIDE.com

    • @georgeinjapan6583
      @georgeinjapan6583 3 роки тому +2

      More details on this please.

    • @p.c.h.6721
      @p.c.h.6721 3 роки тому +7

      @@georgeinjapan6583
      It is what it is, all that money 💰 take it and invest it in yourself, unless you’re going to be a doctor or something like that, you’re better off taking the money and invest it in your own company or your new home, everything else you can learn it for free, all the information that you need to be successful is available for free, it’s up to you to read and take the time to learn, just got to have the discipline to do it, that all.
      Personally, College was a massive waste of time and money, I’ve learned way more after College by reading and even by subscribing to good channels here on UA-cam, it only takes the will to do it.

  • @clerickolter
    @clerickolter 3 роки тому +100

    The Internet is the greatest source of human knowledge - ever - use it to become educated for largely - FREE!

    • @patrickhunter9754
      @patrickhunter9754 3 роки тому +10

      Yes indeed - im 53 and going to world college for free - I have a masters in utube

    • @misssarahashplant31
      @misssarahashplant31 3 роки тому

      Well said!

    • @gepard555
      @gepard555 3 роки тому

      autodidact

    • @jimlyon7276
      @jimlyon7276 3 роки тому +2

      @
      Thomas Kolter - I got dragged through a brutal & quite unnecessary divorce because my X saw it as a useful diversion to avoid facing up to her toxic childhood ! The fact she wrecked the entire family was of no consequence to her. So I found myself confronted with a toxic "socio"- legal system that had been weaponised by the femiNAZIS such that the institution was broken & to use an engineering term "not fit for purpose" - Nothing in my life had prepared me for the amount of life kr@p I was being given because these idiots had naively bought into the stereotypical false ideologies of so called "feminism" Having accepted that the cause of my LEARNING DEFICIT was a conventional education system that once you get past the 3Rs ( Reading/wRiting/aRithmetic ) is pretty useless & certainly doesn't teach you how to cope with life in a species where 90% are dysfunctional I decided to re-educate myself about the "dark side" of our species -societies by getting on the internet. So while my life has been financially ruined by my X ( back then I was operating in an information vacuum/ no internet & no Freedom of Information Act ) & have now become a much more psychologically mature more evolved person. Without getting into a long monologue for those who want to know the core of our species wide problem is KURT LEWIN indicates we are born "hard wired" to be democratic but few of our parents are & just screw us up! THE other main source are the books of THE child psychologist ALICE MILLER - HTH? :)

    • @Hproawesome
      @Hproawesome 3 роки тому

      Not the same because you need to develop soft skill such as leadership, communication, teamwork, or problem solving and you do that in school. learning in the internet is just showing you have educational knowledge but it doesnt show how you apply it for a real job. Plus sometimes you need to do hands on work or lab especially if youR an engineer and school provide you that resources. Leaning online is not the because back then we donT have internet in the 80 oR 90.

  • @mandyhaworth4154
    @mandyhaworth4154 4 роки тому +309

    I feel really sick about this. Our schooling is Corrupt. And that is disgusting

    • @traditionalgirl5585
      @traditionalgirl5585 4 роки тому +7

      Everything is corrupt these days...

    • @BeNice3525
      @BeNice3525 4 роки тому +10

      Well to add to your depression I’m a Mexican construction worker , when I came to the US they bumped me up ONE FULL YEAR in HS after taking a test, they said I had about 30% English (it’s taught In Mexican schools by default) and I was way ahead of American students in everything. Moreover I know Mexicans that have taken their kids back to Mexico and guess what , lo and behold it isn’t rare for a US student to be DEMOTED one full year because of underachieving...in fact I know two kids personally. The US education system is a joke... and college a huge scam. Now that said, my son is in college now to become a robotics engineer ... he was a math gifted student in Hs. I only agreed to him going to college because I don’t want him building houses like I do but I’m afraid of him not learning anything and struggling to get a job. We are paying cash for his college tho , to hell with those loans. Pray for us

    • @fisterhr
      @fisterhr 4 роки тому +6

      The problem begins in early public education for most of us that weren't born with a silver spoon in our mouth. By the time we "graduate" from high school, we should be way more prepared to tackle more advanced subjects in college but we are not. I once worked as a math tutor in a community college branch on a poor part of town. The majority of the people I helped couldn't even add positive and negative numbers...and they either graduated HS or got their GEDs to enter community college. What does that tell you? It tells you that most teachers from K-12 don't care.

    • @fisterhr
      @fisterhr 4 роки тому +2

      @@BeNice3525 Dave, I believe you 100%! When I was in middle school (in Texas) my cousins from Mexico used to laugh at the math homework I had when they used to come to visit. These cousins were many times younger than me. I didn't understand that for years especially since the USA is the richest country in the world and Mexico, without trying to be disrespectful, is no where near that. But I have a theory that I think its worth looking into. Tell me what you think. Many decades ago, public education in America was DELIBERATELY dumbed down. Why, because they didn't want too many prepared and qualified American citizens for corporations to have pay them good salaries and benefits. Instead, they preferred smarter foreigners who worked harder, worked longer hours, complained less and did it all for less pay. Same reason manufacturing was shipped over seas. The only thing I disagree with you Dave is what you said, "I don't want him building houses like I do". He is your son and have every right to wish for him to do this or that, but I ask you, what is wrong with building houses? Did you know that there are many immigrants, like yourself, that have prospered in this country and even become wealthy by working with their hands. You yourself just stated that you are paying cash for your son's college education. That tells me that you make more than the average college graduate. How many college graduates are in debt for being pushed by their high school counselors to go to college at any cost and pay off their loans once they graduate? Instead of telling some of them the truth, that they weren't college material, and encouraged them to study a trade instead? They misled them! I took wood shop and metal shop in middle school. By the time I got to High School, the only trade class was basic auto mechanics but shortly after I graduated, they did away with that too. So the new push was for American kids from public schools to go to college regardless if they could afford to do so or not, or worse, whether they qualified to go to school or not. The loans would take care of it. Look at this country now. I've been working for IT for a few years now, and though it pays ok, I don't think I want to do it forever. For one, they expect you to master more and more new technology that keeps changing by the minute but does not necessarily pay you more for it. Plus it isn't healthy to sit down for 10 hours behind a desk each day and going home too mentally tired to want to do anything else. I'm am actually in the process of practicing small drywall repair to make some money on the side and who knows, maybe starting a little business doing it. In construction, you get a workout while you are making money. And if you are smart, like you, you make a darn good living at it. The problem in this society Dave is that blue collar work, including working with your hands, was stigmatized and became unattractive to young students. That is why my dad, like you with your son, with a good intention in his heart, probably made a mistake in telling me to go to college and not do drywall like he did. He probably just went by Spanish TV campaign ads that encouraged Hispanics to go to college, or encourage their kids to do the same. So I say again, how did that turn out with the student loan crisis we face now in America?

    • @Afflictamine
      @Afflictamine 4 роки тому

      the system was built by the SmallHats designed to corrupt western civilisation and its working, we need to WAKE UP to the zionist regime

  • @jamesr1703
    @jamesr1703 4 роки тому +413

    Kids go to college to learn what people before them used to learn in high school.

    • @jacqueslefave4296
      @jacqueslefave4296 4 роки тому +19

      I agree, and I have a B.A. and an MA, but from long ago when it meant more than now. The education helped me tremendously but the degrees didn't ever help me professionaly.
      In fact, it was generally held against me, by bosses that were afraid I could replace them. High School used to be "high", that is quality, not non-sobriety. Now it is a warehouse for students. I recommend that younger students consider the trades, welding, plumbing, electrician, etc., They pay well.

    • @lashlarue7924
      @lashlarue7924 4 роки тому +5

      Now this is a statement with which I can generally agree.

    • @marilynguinnane4663
      @marilynguinnane4663 4 роки тому +15

      James R --- And they don't even learn what we learned in h.s. in these colleges. Rather, they learn how to be good little socialists.

    • @jacqueslefave4296
      @jacqueslefave4296 4 роки тому +15

      @@marilynguinnane4663 Worse than that, they are taught to hate their country and are taught that its founding fathers were evil.

    • @lashlarue7924
      @lashlarue7924 4 роки тому +3

      @@marilynguinnane4663 And just what do you think you know about it? Young people are always left-leaning. They haven't actually earned any real money yet or had to pay anything consequential in terms of the tax code. You sound like my uptight great aunt who was always fulminating about things like "socialism" and "the blacks". Get over yourself.

  • @iPhonyGamingMC
    @iPhonyGamingMC 4 роки тому +192

    I’m only going to college for a piece of paper, knowing full well I could’ve learned everything online 😕

    • @Bobo-jy5mg
      @Bobo-jy5mg 4 роки тому +8

      The qualification will mean more than the learning 👌

    • @kevdawgsports7503
      @kevdawgsports7503 4 роки тому +3

      @@Bobo-jy5mg that's facts. College is important because you need the degree to get the job you want.

    • @elijahalesana8150
      @elijahalesana8150 4 роки тому +1

      Kent Horvath bro who are you talking to? Ahaha calm down

    • @Bobo-jy5mg
      @Bobo-jy5mg 4 роки тому +4

      Kent Horvath your telling him to chill the fuck out 😂 he's right take a breather. And there are plenty of online university that are highly reputable and teach the information just as well.

    • @Itzzmeagain28
      @Itzzmeagain28 4 роки тому +1

      @Kent Horvath shut'cho bitchass up

  • @xisigma
    @xisigma 3 роки тому +30

    I remember the feeling sitting in class for years stiff and bored wasting my life away learning nothing breathing the stale air of 30 other kids just as sick as i am.

  • @MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia
    @MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia 5 років тому +111

    Hold colleges accountable to the money. Make them guarantee the student a job in their field of study once they graduate or get a refund. This will fix it

    • @ulthelth2899
      @ulthelth2899 5 років тому +2

      How to solve the college debt and high tuition scam that colleges and government working together have played on the taxpayer and students. Democrats came up with this scam to make the government run student loan department paid for by taxpayers. IT'S TIME TO MAKE THE COLLEGES NOW WORTH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND ASSETS TAKE BACK THIS DEBT THE SCAMMED. IT'S TIME THE COLLEGES STOP THEIR SCAM AND LOWERED THEIR FAKE TUITION PRICES. They keep building huge buildings and after decades of yearly fake tuition raises are now worth billions of dollars.
      IT'S TIME STUDENTS AND THEIR PARENTS GO AFTER THE DEMOCRATS FOR CAUSING THIS JUST SO THEY COULD CONTROL COLLEGES, INFORMATION, STUDENTS, CURRICULUM, AND VOTES. Every year the colleges raised their tuition to the outrageous costs and now colleges are worth billions and all scammed by colleges, text book publishers, contractors and every one involved along with Democrat politicians. When anyone saw it would unnecessarily put students in great debt and then raised the objection to this high debt and overpriced tuition the Democrats screamed they were against education. The debt is now close to $2 Trillion dollars of debt held by the government student loan departments and will now bankrupt the country if not paid for. Students are shackled with tens of thousands of dollars of debt and can't pay it back nor can they buy a house with this extra debt on their shoulders. IT'S TIME TO MAKE THE COLLEGES who are NOW WORTH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND ASSETS AND THE DEMOCRAT PARTY THAT HELPED THEM TAKE BACK THIS DEBT THEY SCAMMED. IT'S TIME THE COLLEGES AND THE DEMOCRATS STOP THEIR SCAM AND LOWERED THEIR FAKE OVERPRICED TUITION AND FRAUDULENT INFLATED COSTS.
      IT'S TIME STUDENTS AND THEIR PARENTS GO AFTER THE DEMOCRATS FOR CAUSING THIS JUST SO THEY COULD CONTROL COLLEGES, INFORMATION, STUDENTS, CURRICULUM, AND VOTES. It will take four generations to pay this back unless the colleges are given this debt that they caused with the Democrats and their scam.Scream at every Democrat who made colleges inflate their fake tuition costs and bankrupt students, parents and families

    • @impaledbowl
      @impaledbowl 5 років тому +1

      You'll never get into a program

    • @whatevergoesforme5129
      @whatevergoesforme5129 5 років тому +3

      But how many jobs are available for those who got a degree in gender studies, for example? Some degrees are useless and even nonsensical.

    • @chrysiarose
      @chrysiarose 5 років тому

      I have a job in gender studies.

    • @whatevergoesforme5129
      @whatevergoesforme5129 5 років тому +1

      @@chrysiarose What is that job? Teaching? How many jobs are there for gender studies?

  • @ruudmuller9929
    @ruudmuller9929 4 роки тому +141

    Took me 15 years to pay off all my student loan debt. These figures are mindboggling !!!!

    • @alexman378
      @alexman378 4 роки тому +10

      The fact you even made it that fast puts you in a minority. Glad I never took any loans and had a clean slate when I started out.

    • @prodnyu
      @prodnyu 4 роки тому

      @Jasper James work somewhere else. You are not stuck lol

    • @brennanmartini2819
      @brennanmartini2819 4 роки тому +1

      Now working 40 hrs a week with dumb workers making average income

    • @tonyjones1560
      @tonyjones1560 3 роки тому +2

      I transferred from the National Guard to the regular army when it finally became apparent that my political-science degree wasn't going to get me hired anywhere else. When I got out, I figured my combination of education and experience (including Gulf War combat) would be enough to get "a foot in the door" somewhere. I figured wrong. I was magically transformed from "inexperienced college kid" to "overqualified veteran." Fortunately, I was a pretty good student in high school and received enough scholarship and grant money to not actually have to borrow a dime until my junior year, so I was out of debt by the time I was discharged and didn't owe a crushing amount in any case...but it still wasn't worth it.

  • @empoweredwhiteeqyptianking1049
    @empoweredwhiteeqyptianking1049 4 роки тому +20

    How did I just stumble across this?! This is one of the most important videos I’ve seen on UA-cam

  • @Jaelynne17
    @Jaelynne17 4 роки тому +438

    I don’t remember a damn thing I learned in college. Everything I use in life, I learned while on the job. College gave me a 5 year excuse to party and spend money that I’ll be paying back for the next 50 years of my life.

    • @Bobo-jy5mg
      @Bobo-jy5mg 4 роки тому +15

      Ten you should have tried harder in college. You would have learned something and not be paying off a loan for the next 50 years of your life. If you waste your time in college then you waste the money you spent on it too.

    • @anamericanentrepreneur
      @anamericanentrepreneur 4 роки тому +10

      Jaelynne17 yeah, but weren’t those parties to die for?😂😂. Those were some of the best years in my life!

    • @Bobo-jy5mg
      @Bobo-jy5mg 4 роки тому +4

      An American Entrepreneur College was easily the worst years of my life...

    • @nahshuagriffin4022
      @nahshuagriffin4022 4 роки тому +28

      @@Bobo-jy5mg trying harder doesn't necessarily guaranteed anything. Thinking smarter does. I can keep on trying/working harder for minimal increase but thinking smarter can change the whole situation

    • @Bobo-jy5mg
      @Bobo-jy5mg 4 роки тому +3

      Nahshua Griffin nothing guarantees anything in life. Working harder doesn’t guarantee anything and thinking smarter doesn’t guarantee anything too. So working harder may not "guarantee" a better job, less debt, etc... but there’s certainly a strong positive correlation and causation between those that work harder and those that succeed more. You should work harder and smarter

  • @jesus11063
    @jesus11063 5 років тому +48

    Wow- I sent two of my four kids to college and never know how big the scam was. They are so money hungry. Thanks for uncovering the truth. We need legislation to regulate the college system.

    • @timculpepper6155
      @timculpepper6155 5 років тому +9

      Government is the entity responsible for guaranteeing these loans to these kids in the first place. Government won't help they just make things worse because they are owned by the same banks that give these loans. It's a conflict of interest.

    • @johnkeith5341
      @johnkeith5341 5 років тому +1

      @@timculpepper6155 agreed! Regulation isnt needed, simply rewrite the 501c3 requirements

    • @Plarto545
      @Plarto545 5 років тому

      Legislation is in on it...👎🏿

    • @bwizzle4194
      @bwizzle4194 5 років тому

      Lmao

    • @mattymccolgan9453
      @mattymccolgan9453 5 років тому

      Have to realise the government is just a scape goat you know illusion of choice, it's the people who fund their campaigns that are really running things wake up

  • @ivars5730
    @ivars5730 4 роки тому +237

    I realized college was the biggest scam when I attended UConn and I took a film class and every class we watched a movie and our homework was to compare the two movies every week

    • @Kal-El207
      @Kal-El207 4 роки тому +20

      Damn bro. That’s sad.

    • @kevro999
      @kevro999 4 роки тому +8

      lmfaooo!!!!!

    • @maryxyz2022
      @maryxyz2022 4 роки тому +3

      Damn.

    • @moceanpicture
      @moceanpicture 4 роки тому +3

      Seriously? That teacher should be fired.

    • @abcabcq313
      @abcabcq313 4 роки тому +9

      Bro come on 😂 I joined a video production class because I was thinking of starting vlogs but no, nothing about cameras or photos, instead we learn the history of movies and how cameras work, I need to learn how to work a camera, not how they were made 🤦‍♂️ only in America

  • @magcitrate
    @magcitrate 3 роки тому +33

    Before I went to college, I thought college graduates had some secret education that I wouldn’t understand until I too went to college.
    After I graduated, I realized it was just a waste of time. I don’t remember crap from college 🤮

  • @soal159
    @soal159 6 років тому +343

    You can get a similar education from the public library and all you have to do is read. You can get the same books students use from the secondary market for a fraction of the cost of the new books. You pay a large tuition to listen to a instructor talk about their son who gets traffic tickets.

    • @Ranieac
      @Ranieac 6 років тому +48

      A lot of career paths have college degrees as requirement unfortunatly

    • @ethanjonas7044
      @ethanjonas7044 6 років тому +27

      soal159 but going to a library won’t give u the certificate

    • @lamakicker69
      @lamakicker69 6 років тому +5

      It’s called a degree

    • @Rxnextgenradio
      @Rxnextgenradio 6 років тому +2

      Ian Rea But a lot of those career paths won’t be around forever

    • @lamakicker69
      @lamakicker69 6 років тому +5

      The Butt Goblin most careers paths that will still be around for the foreseeable are the ones that will require degrees...

  • @skindawgmanson5592
    @skindawgmanson5592 5 років тому +148

    I'm glad I finished a five year apprenticeship 17 yrs ago. I'm a journeyman making 100K a year and been living debt free.

    • @BTsMusicChannel
      @BTsMusicChannel 5 років тому +7

      And of course, money is all that matters in life, right Mr. Manson? I have a PhD, make over $100K and live debt free because I was smart enough to get scholarships, and I know how to think!!!

    • @mhd9166
      @mhd9166 5 років тому +5

      @@BTsMusicChannel unfortunately we live in this time were people care a lot of money rather than being intelligent or developing a state of mind criticism or developing what can i call an intellectual immunity against propaganda

    • @BTsMusicChannel
      @BTsMusicChannel 5 років тому

      @@mhd9166 It is known as the advanced capitalist state.

    • @PGaneshRaju
      @PGaneshRaju 5 років тому +1

      Money is the new DEBT, is you dont have debt you're fucking poor

    • @courtneydurham8429
      @courtneydurham8429 5 років тому +1

      Might I inquire? Plumber? Electrician? HVAC? My son is entering the 8th grade and I want him to start thinking about these things.

  • @MaxWalker676
    @MaxWalker676 3 роки тому +79

    "Colleges aren't for learning but just for fun" - Elon Musk 2020 :)

    • @shrek19yearsago78
      @shrek19yearsago78 3 роки тому +10

      It really is just a bunch of young adults partying not having clue of what there going to do with there life

    • @Hproawesome
      @Hproawesome 3 роки тому +11

      especially if they choose useless major and end up working at Starbucks instead .😂

    • @jothishprabu8
      @jothishprabu8 3 роки тому

      Only for him

    • @zarach9459
      @zarach9459 Рік тому

      This is true for many students, it is called "University Experience", they attend the university to participate in social life, parties and sports, studying is something secondary, universities know it and encourage it because that is how they get thousands of fools who pay a lot of money for knowledge that they could easily have obtained in any public library or internet.

  • @jammingalways
    @jammingalways 5 років тому +569

    "It's called the American Dream for a reason because you have to be asleep to believe it". -- George Carlin

    • @jammingalways
      @jammingalways 5 років тому +7

      @Dale Walker what an incredibly ill-informed statement. Tell that to the degreed homeless population that currently exists. ua-cam.com/video/1Y_2ztFr6qg/v-deo.html or this lady who had a career... ua-cam.com/video/as6bS-7ZlgQ/v-deo.html

    • @jammingalways
      @jammingalways 5 років тому +8

      @first last2 Exactly! :) A scam that SHOULD be a crime! When I finished college I was NOT in debt as college was actually affordable! I DEFINITELY was not in $30+K worth of debt that's for sure! Get a job and add a mortgage to THAT! Talk about "slavery"! You're forced to work UNTIL you'll DIE! Factor in periodic lay-offs or a RECESSION and what a HORRIBLE life to live! We should be teaching our children to create their own paths! Virgin Records (for example) was started by a high school drop-out! :)

    • @jammingalways
      @jammingalways 5 років тому +1

      @first last2 One more thing... it's like they are telling us... in order to get the opportunity that america "offers", you MUST possess a DEGREE! I've known lifetime MAIDS because they simply couldn't afford "higher education". Sad. Every immigrant who landed here in the early 1900's would not have a PRAYER of a chance by this "standard".

    • @rickyv7757
      @rickyv7757 5 років тому +4

      Carlin was a real prophet

    • @WiscoTricks
      @WiscoTricks 5 років тому +1

      @Dale Walker just like you being born

  • @EricSmyth4Christ
    @EricSmyth4Christ 6 років тому +72

    If you stop guaranteeing student loans, the colleges will have to compete with each other and lower their prices or close their doors for good. The fact that anyone can get a student loan means that the colleges get a license to raise their prices all the time.

    • @reference2me
      @reference2me 6 років тому +2

      Exactly ...

    • @cgreen777
      @cgreen777 6 років тому +4

      The more money the govt give to the poor to dig them out of poverty.. The more greedy intities raise their prices. So the poor can never get out of poverty. These student loans give colleges license to steal from students in every way imaginable.

  • @VictorAntonioLive
    @VictorAntonioLive 6 років тому +266

    My perspective; just sharing - I have a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and an MBA...best ROI in my life. It's not the degree, it's what you do with the degree. Choose wisely,...implement effectively! That said, you DO NOT need a college degree to be financially successful! Today's education system is out of sync, out of touch and OUTTA their mindS in terms of COSTS! On that, we agree! Thank you.

    • @BrandonThe1nr
      @BrandonThe1nr 6 років тому +2

      Victor Antonio well put! Thanks for sharing 🤘🏾

    • @scottandrewhutchins
      @scottandrewhutchins 5 років тому +7

      @Hippy(Bboomer) Yeah, I couldn't get through pre-calculus and can't do physical labor, so I deserve to be homeless with my liberal arts degrees and $66k in debt.

    • @TheFootbaldd
      @TheFootbaldd 5 років тому +7

      @@chocolatepancakes2722 If you took the time to learn what you could instead of cookbooking and going through the motion, took electives that applicable to your career from the teachers that actually took their job seriously, and make yourself marketable and interview-able then you will be fine. It may take some work and time to find a job, but it will pay off. I am 6 months into my career as an EE. I work in power electronics and control, and absolutely love what I am doing. I had to extend my job search to across the us, and had many dud interviews; however, I took each one of those as a learning opportunity, and it worked out in the end.

    • @heyaisdabomb
      @heyaisdabomb 5 років тому +1

      The worst part of the College system, besides the debt, is the lack of helping you transition from school to business. 7 months with a Computer Science degree in San Francisco, and still can't find a job... I know when I do, the 130k in debt I owe will go away pretty quickly with the high salaries here. But still... I wish that 46k per year I payed helped me more. That said, college was the best decision I ever made. GL finding high paying jobs without a college degree (unless you can demonstrate something amazing).

    • @chancerhymes8931
      @chancerhymes8931 5 років тому +5

      Rocket Boards I’m 19 with no college education and I just quit my job a couple of months ago working for a top producing real estate team earning 4-5k a month. College is a joke, I started a business and work half the hours and earn even more money from my business. I have a friend of mine that is 22 years old, absolutely no college education and he just quit his job making $80k a year for a better job making six figures. He has 0 college education. I’m 19, I will be making six figures in 2019. Don’t ever say “good luck finding a good job with out a degree”, that is quite funny. Most of the successful people I know don’t have college degrees. Typically the ones with college degrees are the ones struggling and stressing more than anyone I know. My previous boss, who owned the real estate brokerage makes several hundred thousand a year and he told me himself, “college isn’t what is important. The way you think is what will determine your success in life.” I could find a good paying within 2-3 weeks if I needed one. I would also apply to 70-80 jobs. You should be interviewing the company. They should be lucky to even have you working for them. They don’t teach the best way to think in college. They educate mentally, and that is it. I read regularly and my books only cost $10-20 a piece. It sounds to me like you didn’t make the best decision. If that is the best decision of your life, your kids are going to hate you when they become adults. Please don’t take offense, I’m only being honest. Im not someone to lie to you. You’re in control of your future. The decisions you make this year determines where you will be in life. You have it inside of you to be extremely successful financially if you choose to be. It’s your choice though, not your college degrees choice.

  • @jayjordan833
    @jayjordan833 3 роки тому +27

    Trade School was the best decision of my career life. No debt I make good money while many of my friends are paying of nearly six figures of debt and I make what alot of them make.

  • @shootermcgavin4999
    @shootermcgavin4999 4 роки тому +107

    I got scammed. Paid it off over 10 years. My parents recommended I go to college even though I didn’t know what I wanted to do.

    • @beemonique8466
      @beemonique8466 4 роки тому +18

      Just like most young adults.

    • @isabellaharper5455
      @isabellaharper5455 4 роки тому

      i was also scammed by this investment scammer they took everything from me and my family but i was later referred to a security agencies that helped me get my money back and gave me back my life.for any more information about the company you can message me on whatsapp +16615245836

    • @iReadFiction
      @iReadFiction 3 роки тому +11

      Just like me. Except i stopped it after community college. 1 month into uni and I dropped out. I knew after 2 weeks in there it wasn't meant to be there. Now I do independent projects. Family highly disapproves and I don't give a shit.

    • @ErikaLaGrande
      @ErikaLaGrande 3 роки тому

      I was like you and it took me forever to finish...15 years. Fortunately, I started college in the fall of 1983 and did the first 4 years at community college. There is NO WAY I could have flaked like that now. Community college was $50/semester and then when I transferred to CSULB, it was about $400/semester. I used to sign up and drop. No way could anyone do that now. I suffered and lived at home so I didn’t graduate with debt. I thank God that I had the luxury to make mistakes. The young kids now don’t have that. The worse thing that happened to me was that my dad never let me forget what a flake I was.

    • @shootermcgavin4999
      @shootermcgavin4999 3 роки тому +2

      @@ErikaLaGrande Maybe your dad didn't give great fatherly advice and was mostly absent like my dad. The college marketing convinced parents it was worth it and they are the ones that got scammed telling their kids to go to college without any plan.

  • @RCWrightX89
    @RCWrightX89 5 років тому +80

    I think the solution is simple:
    1. Make it illegal to require a degree for a job out side of medicine.
    2. Tax the University
    3. Set the limit on how much a university can charge students.
    4. Chage the recognition of degrees to be based on core class credits not overall credits earned. And make it illegal for university to force student to take non-core classes inorder to be qualified for higher core classes.

    • @realhick2003
      @realhick2003 5 років тому +10

      Honestly we just need to end government subsidies and end government student loan forgiveness. These two things are the reason universities can still charge absurd amounts of money and people still go. Price caps would just lead to universities closing instead of lowering prices.

    • @thewilloughby605
      @thewilloughby605 5 років тому +2

      you got my vote

    • @AmazingStoryDewd
      @AmazingStoryDewd 5 років тому +2

      Outside of medicine? What about the sciences? Or engineering?

    • @almasshussein6999
      @almasshussein6999 5 років тому +1

      Thank you! Universities are killing us in setting so many modules that we don't really need in a particular course that results in us spending more time on unnecessary staff and them receiving more money.

    • @Zayindjejfj
      @Zayindjejfj 5 років тому +1

      @@AmazingStoryDewd I'd agree that certain fields need to have more time and certification.

  • @bucerias01
    @bucerias01 5 років тому +86

    My son recently left the University of Miami after two years....the cost of tuition, room and board for one year $73k......just too outrageous

    • @abegovic1012
      @abegovic1012 5 років тому +6

      Joseph McManus 73k for one year????? Jesus

    • @MafiosoDon21
      @MafiosoDon21 5 років тому +3

      Holy cow

    • @windowsvistasuxalot
      @windowsvistasuxalot 5 років тому +1

      Miami be expensive but they did just film Bad Boys 3 there

    • @joyce_rx
      @joyce_rx 5 років тому

      bruh wtf

    • @JohnDoe-mp1zk
      @JohnDoe-mp1zk 4 роки тому +2

      at first I thought this guy is full of shit, but my apology you are correct. Now that is totally freaking ridiculous. WTF. any school that takes pride in it's football team being refereed to as Convicts doesn't seem like the best place. And the way they where those gold chains ( i mean it's hilarious but doesn't depict the institution in the best light). They defein;ley pay them like convicts and exploit the you know what out of them. ( as to all other Div 1 schools

  • @yaltipolous
    @yaltipolous 3 роки тому +18

    As a college student in 2021; I can say for certain that this is more true now than ever.

  • @idid1866
    @idid1866 5 років тому +42

    I saw the writing on the wall after two years in college...didn't learn anything new, but I paid thousands! Yeah...it's a scam!

    • @fakename7423
      @fakename7423 4 роки тому +1

      All depends on your major! Most are worthless and shitty, others are actually useful and will help you succeed. Not all colleges are bad. I wouldn’t ever go to a big college like the ones back east. They cost too much and are really worthless when you can get the same education elsewhere for cheap

  • @TampaTec
    @TampaTec 6 років тому +527

    Many Football coaches get paid over about 100k a year.

    • @TJdogs
      @TJdogs 6 років тому +31

      A&M just signed Jimbo for 10 years at 75 million...

    • @alomonwo
      @alomonwo 6 років тому +3

      Oh damn Tampatech your channel is awesome

    • @raywasser6820
      @raywasser6820 6 років тому +14

      100 large wont even hire a mediocre assistant at many name schools anymore.

    • @lacking_garage
      @lacking_garage 6 років тому +1

      I have worked in WPI's basketball coaches house. He definitely makes way north of 100k.

    • @2phonebabykeem913
      @2phonebabykeem913 6 років тому

      Tampatec some get millions

  • @johnwagenhofferjr1132
    @johnwagenhofferjr1132 3 роки тому +4

    This is stuff I've said for over twenty years.....Glad you've used your platform to blast this out to the digital universe for everyone. Hopefully, some will benefit and learn from this.

  • @biffgee6797
    @biffgee6797 5 років тому +29

    Stop the student loan guarantees by the government. That's one of the main drivers of increasing tuition.

  • @VALUETAINMENT
    @VALUETAINMENT  6 років тому +491

    What are your thoughts? How would you improve the educational system? PBD

    • @ألفومية-ح5ك
      @ألفومية-ح5ك 6 років тому +39

      It's a worldwide problem not only in America

    • @davidondrejek8947
      @davidondrejek8947 6 років тому +50

      Delete schools

    • @Genesispersonaltransformation
      @Genesispersonaltransformation 6 років тому +13

      I believe that to improve the education system is by talking to teacher themselves. I am trying my best to get people that I interview to see that it is a big problem. I was in the special education. I thought I was stupid. Sadly, no one has taught us about skills. It important.
      Instead of teaching us the unless shit! They need to program the student mine with what they can do and achieve.
      To often, what we learn at home affect us the most.
      When I talk to expert, they feel that it need to be improve. But teacher can do so much.

    • @abcdxx1059
      @abcdxx1059 6 років тому

      I would improve the education system by changing the pattern and add the application of whatever is thought in the books I found out the hard way the stuff in it is really precious but are not properly explained so I write 100 application of whatever is thought in the school and would advise every one to do so

    • @politicalstatus197
      @politicalstatus197 6 років тому +13

      I'd like to see the United States reform their education system into a Certification System. You go to public school for so many years and are trained personally by Artificial Intelligence combined with tutors (Teachers reformed) on a one-on-one basis for areas you're having difficulty with. If you finish the certification program before you're 18, you're legally certified at that age. This way if you're 12 and done learning Calculus AB and BC and Statistics and Probability (which would be reformed into one massive Math section combined with Science) then you can get certified and go on ahead and be qualified to work rather than attending a college another 4 years for no reason other than to indenture yourself to some loan program.

  • @JesusmyRedeemer1
    @JesusmyRedeemer1 4 роки тому +32

    "a scam within a scam" lol. Couldn't have said it better myself. This man is a true business man.

  • @Jmaz1234
    @Jmaz1234 3 роки тому +5

    I'm so glad I saw the scam & didn't go to college like most aimless young adults, who willingly went into massive debt without even knowing their major

  • @freddymarquez367
    @freddymarquez367 6 років тому +147

    I was 18years old straight out of high school.. had a job by the way 2 days after high school... and was getting $9/hour working right next to a 26 year old that had 8 years of college ... making the same amount. One day the owner of the company came by and found him talking... and said, "I pay you to work.... not to think... so get to work.!" That's the moment I thought.. I might just be perfectly fine by not going to school 🙏🙏

    • @JohnBowl14690
      @JohnBowl14690 6 років тому +48

      Freddy - Yes, when people spend 8 years in college getting a PHD in basket weaving, they will only get $9 per hour. However, if you spend 4 years in software engineering, the average wage at Google is over $50 per hour. Lesson: Don't major in basket weaving.

    • @freddymarquez367
      @freddymarquez367 6 років тому +10

      @@JohnBowl14690 I would have to agree red chevy 👌👌👌

    • @tanicwhisper0647
      @tanicwhisper0647 6 років тому +10

      Red Chevy I’ve seen plenty of Software Engineering bloggers complain about how hard it is to find work with that kind of degree. I’ve also seen many say they leave Google after about 2 years.

    • @JohnBowl14690
      @JohnBowl14690 6 років тому +1

      I know 2 SEs but neither work for Google. That said, they are doing very well. One of them wants to move to that area to work for Google.

    • @wolfmanking18
      @wolfmanking18 6 років тому +2

      @@tanicwhisper0647 you're right. The turnover for Google is nuts but if you search some channels here on UA-cam you'll find they will leave seeking new opportunities ie: own company creation etc. But from my own experience from where I work they are super valued... So much so that they get thousands in stocks just to stick around.. so IDK it's complicated for sure but I would bet there's a job out there for any SE

  • @syaodem
    @syaodem 6 років тому +203

    Go to a community college for 2 years, get enough credits, and then go to a college you wanted to go to. You're almost guaranteed to be accepted and it's way cheaper.

    • @minusfellow
      @minusfellow 6 років тому +18

      Korrel full agreed the amount of money saved

    • @ladyxkuromi
      @ladyxkuromi 6 років тому +9

      That's what I'm doing right now

    • @DoomFinger511
      @DoomFinger511 6 років тому +12

      THANK YOU! I tell people this all the time. I did the exact same thing. I then took a break to go work after getting my 2 year degree. Then when I was 25 I was eligible for full financial aid (the govt stops taking into account your parents income at that age for eligibility) and was able to transfer and get a BS from a university completely for free. No debt, and payed less then $10k for the first 2 years I attended my community college.

    • @goldengalsclazy
      @goldengalsclazy 6 років тому +4

      That's excellent sound advice. Community colleges can really help ease the financial burden of paying for a 4 year university, or college. Don't forget too that there's The College Level Examination Program (CLEP), which is a program that enables students to earn college credit for introductory-level courses by achieving satisfactory scores on subject-specific tests. If you achieve a certain score, then you can receive college credit without having to spend money taking more classes. It's another GREAT way to cut the expenses of pursuing a 4 year degree.

    • @AliumMoAnn
      @AliumMoAnn 6 років тому +4

      I'm doing that right now. On top of that, I got my first year of C.C. free because of financial aid (apparently my school was giving it away to everyone who was taking 12+ units because of a law in my state) so I get to save even more money. Yay for me!

  • @primeirrational
    @primeirrational 5 років тому +418

    Meanwhile in Sweden, we get paid for studying at universities

    • @malikaalibdat7079
      @malikaalibdat7079 4 роки тому +20

      Polemic Irrational REALLY?! 😵 Even international students?

    • @primeirrational
      @primeirrational 4 роки тому +7

      @@malikaalibdat7079 everyone in EU, I think

    • @yurunning5574
      @yurunning5574 4 роки тому +86

      @@primeirrational the western world, "America" is screwed. No free education and no free health-care. America is one of the wealthiest nations in the world, yet they spend all their money on military???

    • @stopwastingseed.hijabmodes2754
      @stopwastingseed.hijabmodes2754 4 роки тому +2

      Polemic Irrational cool

    • @Rectore-sw5kk
      @Rectore-sw5kk 4 роки тому +36

      MannyRomero As an American, I agree with you, our government would rather see us be a bigger competitor over China rather than be a functioning society, don’t let me get started on our bankers and cooperate problem

  • @Ms_AMGR
    @Ms_AMGR 4 роки тому +73

    And, financial literacy is not part of the education, so that the scam can continue unquestioned. Thank you for your free education Valuetainment!

  • @gavinv.4872
    @gavinv.4872 6 років тому +114

    The housing crisis caused the recession in 2008. We will see the "college" crisis in the coming years, be ready.
    - Current college student

    • @andali555
      @andali555 5 років тому +4

      It's either this or the auto loan crisis, maybe both!

    • @JK-lr4su
      @JK-lr4su 5 років тому +3

      @@andali555 auto, banking, college crisis soon to come ;)

    • @Marshmellow3971
      @Marshmellow3971 5 років тому +1

      Yup. And I'll bet you my entire tuition for my bachelors and masters that unlike Wall Street, we won't get a bailout.

  • @victorshackapopulus6078
    @victorshackapopulus6078 3 роки тому +2

    I’m 54 never been to University don’t even live in the States but I’m fascinated by the info in this video. Well done Sir.

  • @gilian2587
    @gilian2587 4 роки тому +139

    Having a Masters of Science in a field myself... if you say "College is a scam."; I say, you're not wrong.

    • @md.abdullahal-mamun7990
      @md.abdullahal-mamun7990 3 роки тому

      Is college truely scam and waste our valuable time? I think we spend so much time in college activities but here majority time is useless in my point of view. Do you please clear to me ,am I right or wrong?

    • @gilian2587
      @gilian2587 3 роки тому +4

      @@md.abdullahal-mamun7990 I would respond to your question, however all of my responses are getting deleted by youtube or by 'Valuetainment' for some reason. The cost to payoff ratio for lower or middle class people is too low and has been dropping too quickly in recent decades. The time spent in college is valuable... but the middle and the lower classes cannot afford it in the US, at the moment.

    • @purpleraptor1183
      @purpleraptor1183 Рік тому

      @@md.abdullahal-mamun7990 Besides engineering, medical, Law degrees. All the degrees are basically BS. Also, the money you paying for all three majors classes are too much. Right now, even if you have Law and engineering degree and you are average student with average GPA like 3.0. You will have very hard time getting a job in your field you study in college. As for degrees like English, gender studies and other classes like those degrees good luck finding a job in those fields.

  • @emiliobriones5700
    @emiliobriones5700 4 роки тому +131

    All my friends went to good colleges and always had good grades in highschool. I was ditching school everyday and almost failed out. 5 years later after highschool. I have 2 of my own companies, doing very well. Most my friends are working low paying jobs or jobless. I didn’t go to school, but I challenge myself I would be successful and get ahead in those 4 years while everyone else is partying in college.

    • @commonsense3921
      @commonsense3921 4 роки тому +3

      If they have a degree they might have done a little more than partying.

    • @starduststudios5671
      @starduststudios5671 4 роки тому +6

      Literally me. I loathe the system so I am tired of dragging my but to college.

    • @jeffreyrodriguez1913
      @jeffreyrodriguez1913 4 роки тому

      Hard to believe but it can happen.

    • @runawaypacman
      @runawaypacman 4 роки тому +15

      I think the reason why your friends in college didn't make it that far is because they had the mind set that once you go to college you'll automatically get a good job when that's not the case anymore which is why they were probably partying instead of focusing on networking or figuring out where they wanted to work and mabe doing a internship there so they can at least get their foot in the door.

    • @emiliobriones5700
      @emiliobriones5700 4 роки тому +1

      Common Sense haha true

  • @winstonsmith3070
    @winstonsmith3070 4 роки тому +18

    On the 1st day of registering for classes at a local NJ college my son was asked: "Would you like to take the course on 3rd World Women's issues?" $18,000 in tuition to take courses like 3rd World Women's issues? Among others like this? Needless to say he dropped out after one semester and now is saving his money to start his own business.

  • @DSLethal1
    @DSLethal1 3 роки тому +3

    My college was not a scam. It's a scam if you are stupid enough to pick the wrong degrees. I paid $52,000 for my 4 year degree at an average state school and my starting pay was $91,000. Then the company I worked for paid $25,000 for my masters degree which bumped my pay up to 120k. I picked a degree in demand.. NOT a degree that makes me feel all fuzzy inside. I work 7 hours a day, make 120k, and spend the rest of my time all warm and fuzzy living life the way I want.

    • @kingcrimson3073
      @kingcrimson3073 3 роки тому

      let me guess...computer science/engineering lmao.Thats what I did and now I'm making $75K out of school with ~35K in debt

  • @illuminationinmotion
    @illuminationinmotion 6 років тому +256

    Almost everything I learned in college I had to unlearn. So much time and money wasted. Self educate! Not only will it take less time, it also is more exciting and practically free.

    • @TheGunz0001
      @TheGunz0001 6 років тому +1

      Well u go to college to give urself in-depth knowledge n training. Like nuclear tech. Worst part is people r going to college hoping to find meaning to their future since all theyve done up til then is going to school.
      So if u're going to college n taking up a course but at the end of the course u dont build ur career on cutting-edge knowledge, then yeah its a waste of money. If u decide to become a plumber or car mechanic, is that mechanical degree worth it over what u can learn online? Its easy to say no looking back, but if ur degree gets u a job designing cars/ planes/ ballistics or country's infrastructure, is that degree worth it over "studying online"?
      That said USA's college fees r fucked up, my degree costed like....20k USD n i'm not paying my entire paychecks in debt every month.

    • @nicholasklapatch4088
      @nicholasklapatch4088 6 років тому +3

      @@zuhairs7929 @MidnightFlower13 is right. The whole "self-educate" idea is overrated. There are learning gaps, and not the same access to resources. It does work to an extent, but you will not work alongside people with similar interests and expert instructors. Self-education is only really beneficial to people with a really solid foundation. They know the theory, its applications, and more.

    • @erect4e369
      @erect4e369 6 років тому +3

      MidnightFlower13 you’re the idiot. The point of a lot of these comments about “self-learning” is to research and demonstrate knowledge on a particular area, which can be done outside the constructs of 100k in student debts and a piece of toilet paper you can hang on your wall. There is very little you learn in college that cannot be learned at a library or online for free. The point is, is that having a bachelor’s degree as the bare minimum is useless, because it doesn’t necessarily mean that person can actually apply the worthless memorization they learned in college. You learn through on the job experience, not in a class. The businesses are starting to find this out, and find that college students are just useless idiots without any critical thinking skills.

    • @TheGunz0001
      @TheGunz0001 6 років тому

      I hear what u r saying that a degree coating 100k is a gamble in itself n I agree with that. As stated earlier, my point is that college don't just offer lectures tho, college is supposed to be the place to offer experience without hurting anyone. U can't self-study n build a Burj-Khalifa, or design a Tesla model S.
      U mentioned self-study to do business, u r absolutely right, u don't need a degree to have a stable job or start a business. In fact young entrepreneurs now r people who went to college for a science n maths degree AND self-study business.
      I would like to point out that in Germany n in Malaysia, we can get a decent degree without selling a kidney. It's only very cutting-edge courses or prestigious degrees that we need to go to the USA to use ur facilities or network with corporates.

    • @Rxnextgenradio
      @Rxnextgenradio 6 років тому +1

      MidnightFlower13 You’re obviously the idiot. The world doesn’t revolve around you and he never said “everybody should self-educate”. Learn to read peasant.

  • @ronsouther
    @ronsouther 4 роки тому +40

    I’m fortunate that both my kids fell in love with being paramedics and so that meant they went to a local school for training. Both got hired into the work force easily and then with that income, they are taking correspondence course to get degrees needed for advancement.
    The thought of getting wrapped up into the cost of universities today is financially traumatizing because of the debt load, or the dollar cost if paying cash. It’s sickening.
    The internet is my university for all the reasons you state. Well done.

    • @CryptoGirl
      @CryptoGirl 4 роки тому +3

      Great Story and cheers to you for allowing them to do that! You are a good man!

    • @rosem6862
      @rosem6862 4 роки тому +3

      Also the fact that due to the stress and workload some students are suffering from mental issues and have committed suicide🥺

  • @ladyluck7481
    @ladyluck7481 3 роки тому +4

    College is a scam-- financially, but still, I got jobs paying well after graduation. College allowed me to access to a lot of things related to my major --talks from people who "made it " in my field" and I had good jobs in my field . The only thing is students can choose after they graduate - college or the military. Kids DO NOT GIVE UP ON COLLEGE YET. Watch it because they played this same game of "college is not necessary" when I graduated in the 80's and I almost talked myself out of going. Glad I went and graduated.

  • @DJM.I.A.
    @DJM.I.A. 5 років тому +260

    This is just an example of how virtually everything we've been told that will benefit us is actually designed to be used against you in the long run.

    • @georgezink6338
      @georgezink6338 5 років тому +4

      DJ M.I.A. nailed it

    • @emmettmarbury6571
      @emmettmarbury6571 5 років тому +18

      Exactly. Somewhere between the first grade and this point in our lives, we lost our damn minds. Do you remember before going to school how you used to ask your mother and father all of those crazy questions, and then you just stopped?

    • @unlearneternity
      @unlearneternity 5 років тому +8

      LMAO, we were woke and then they stick us in school to turn us into zombies. hahaha. i agree with you.

    • @inthematrix4649
      @inthematrix4649 5 років тому +1

      @Michael P yes Government is the Mafia!

    • @windowsvistasuxalot
      @windowsvistasuxalot 5 років тому

      Seemed pretty good. 34k debt and a 4 year degree/good times.

  • @chinaboytag1
    @chinaboytag1 6 років тому +38

    All that we really need are internships. Everything else is so unnecessary. All people that need specialized educations could go to specialized schools. Everyone else can and will learn most of their information on the job anyway, so why not just have internships?

  • @uncommonsense5876
    @uncommonsense5876 5 років тому +147

    The 20yr old person who starts a business & works for 50-60hrs a week for 4 yrs on average will be so far ahead of the 20yr old who spends the same time in college graduating with a mountain of debt, 4 yrs less experienced and no job certain in many cases. Technology is the great equalizer in 2019 for the business owner. As a business owner, I'm looking the talent who is the "doer" not who has the "degree".

    • @dripkid89
      @dripkid89 5 років тому +2

      The absolute truth you posted.

    • @hotpepper5037
      @hotpepper5037 5 років тому +7

      Indeed the system is corrupt

    • @staydownuntilyoucomeup9704
      @staydownuntilyoucomeup9704 5 років тому +1

      Truth

    • @travisadams4470
      @travisadams4470 5 років тому +8

      The problem is when companies replace its citizens with H1B Visa workers and /or off-shore jobs. Then it becomes a race to the bottom. This is why the USA needs a border wall, very limited immigration and zero Visa workers.

    • @trutharmy6517
      @trutharmy6517 5 років тому +2

      well said Rick!

  • @fnutenzinnamdol596
    @fnutenzinnamdol596 3 роки тому +3

    What about all the credits(subjects) that we have to take compulsorily but that have absolutely nothing to do with my major? That is also a scam.

  • @mickcv4554
    @mickcv4554 5 років тому +39

    Not enough people know about Harvard’s ridiculous endowment.

  • @rodgercastro9607
    @rodgercastro9607 5 років тому +27

    Funny how this video alone taught me more about finances than public school

    • @BaldMancTwat
      @BaldMancTwat 5 років тому +6

      So could watching a brick wall. You don't get taught about finances in school. Ever.

  • @davidhirschv7903
    @davidhirschv7903 5 років тому +129

    They also have a stranglehold on social ideologies within the educational system.

    • @thegeneralist7527
      @thegeneralist7527 5 років тому +14

      This is becoming a real problem as the curriculum moves further and further to the left.

    • @reaction6370
      @reaction6370 5 років тому

      @For Aiur That's not even remotely true, but keep believing your...oh wait, "fake news"

    • @billpletikapich8320
      @billpletikapich8320 5 років тому

      agreed

    • @getredytagetredy
      @getredytagetredy 5 років тому +2

      Freedoman ...education system is a farce

  • @enriquealomia6399
    @enriquealomia6399 4 роки тому +6

    The problem is that most students go in full time and that's why they are in debt instead of taking a few classes per semester and work at a job

  • @rumikoadame
    @rumikoadame 4 роки тому +117

    I feel like an idiot for being in debt. I love my education experience and I can definitely say I learned and grew a lot in college, but I see friends who didn’t go to college and have more money or freedom because they’re not tied to a loan.

    • @dallaswiganusky
      @dallaswiganusky 4 роки тому +3

      I feel dumb, too. You’re definitely not alone. I have 20,000 in loans and I dropped out.

    • @cyndywang3182
      @cyndywang3182 3 роки тому

      spend more time in the working world, you will see college experience isn't a real life. You can help change this madness by signing the petition at www.change.org/p/pandemic-stimulus-cancel-student-loans-by-executive-order?recruiter=1644046&fbclid=IwAR2KqOu8xYgWbYUC395WemQaCnu4tD5zACJVfqWTnR0-fusJQh2A4z06N0U

    • @CarbonJackal13
      @CarbonJackal13 3 роки тому +4

      You will soon realize how important financial independence will shape your attitude and outlook on life.
      The borrower is slave to the lender.
      If you do not borrow, you are free from the chains. In fact, you can become the lender and make a living letting these millions of people borrow from you.

  • @InvestingHustler
    @InvestingHustler 6 років тому +120

    I wasted 30k and 3 years in college . If I could go back in time I would invest that money instead. I learned soo much more from real world experience vs college 🤔

    • @VALUETAINMENT
      @VALUETAINMENT  6 років тому +7

      What was your biggest takeaway?

    • @_godsl4yer_
      @_godsl4yer_ 6 років тому +4

      What did you do? College is one of those things that you need to do properly to benefit from.

    • @InvestingHustler
      @InvestingHustler 6 років тому +21

      Valuetainment Valuetainment my biggest takeaway from going to school ?
      I would say real world experience beats sitting in a classroom, also that college depending on the course sets you up to be a employee for the rest of ur life.

    • @blundy1699
      @blundy1699 6 років тому +11

      Sounds like you didn't know what the hell you were doing when you sign up for school....

    • @Roar902
      @Roar902 6 років тому +4

      Chocolate Sheep i would say because of economy.

  • @nicholaspagano8438
    @nicholaspagano8438 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you for bringing this injustice to my attention.

  • @Solomy
    @Solomy 6 років тому +538

    Im 18 now and ever since i was 16 i realized that college was a scam because you’re paying well over 100k for a job that grosses 70k doesn’t make sense if u ask me

    • @TrackRunny
      @TrackRunny 6 років тому +100

      Bar Los Well, you pay 100K once for a 70K job, and you get that 70K a year. So college is kinda like a investment, you pay 100K upfront, and get 70K a year for a long time, depending on how long you keep the job!

    • @drewweller8205
      @drewweller8205 6 років тому +122

      Bar Los I can tell you don’t do well in math.

    • @fv457
      @fv457 6 років тому +73

      Bar Los good luck finding a job to begin with that pays $70k upfront

    • @cephalonplant4087
      @cephalonplant4087 6 років тому +71

      @@TrackRunny Say that to the countless adults with master degrees making less then 20k a year

    • @drewweller8205
      @drewweller8205 6 років тому +59

      Mercury Gaming Just don’t get a useless degree. If you want to make money, pick a field that makes money.

  • @CHAOS_6E
    @CHAOS_6E 4 роки тому +223

    4 years of college shouldn’t cost more than 10,000

    • @rena4278
      @rena4278 4 роки тому

      @Emilio Chavez tuitions fee 😂

    • @ErikaLaGrande
      @ErikaLaGrande 3 роки тому +16

      I went to CSULB in the 90s. It was $480/semester for a full load. A degree cost under $4,000 with tuition and some fees. Books were about $100/semester if you bought NEW books. Parking was $50/semester. I can’t believe how much it costs now...and it’s cheap compared to the UC system.

    • @jsheav
      @jsheav 3 роки тому +2

      It's tough cause you also have to live on campus for 4 years. Even with no tuition, it can still rack up

    • @swavekbu4959
      @swavekbu4959 3 роки тому

      You're right, if you live in Canada.

    • @warmike
      @warmike 2 роки тому

      @@jsheav what if you go to university in a city you live in? Can you live with your parents and have them drive you to university, or drive yourself, or go by bus or train?

  • @IANXZ
    @IANXZ 3 роки тому +1

    When everybody is special, no one is.

  • @Coughtry
    @Coughtry 4 роки тому +38

    Dead on. A college program is nothing more than an expensive book club.

  • @swolaceferrari6611
    @swolaceferrari6611 4 роки тому +106

    I fell for this scam and its cost me dearly in my life

    • @continuouspgd8869
      @continuouspgd8869 4 роки тому +2

      Sorry about that... I hope things are better/improved now.

    • @JavierHardeman199X
      @JavierHardeman199X 4 роки тому

      Sorry to hear that man

    • @kamanashiskar9203
      @kamanashiskar9203 3 роки тому

      @@conspiracyarchive6265 The people that own this stuff will take the Government to court then.

  • @benhabibs952
    @benhabibs952 5 років тому +121

    I don’t have a college degree. I earn more money than most higher learning graduates and have no debts except my credit card which gets paid in full every month🙂

    • @willlicks8584
      @willlicks8584 5 років тому +4

      @@treett4268 the kind who capitalizes it lol

    • @truth2645
      @truth2645 5 років тому +1

      @ben habib’s I have 100k+ student loan debt. I am so jealous of you and sad I ever went to college.

    • @truth2645
      @truth2645 5 років тому +4

      @Dale Walker truth. But at 18 I was just fulfilling my parents wishes for me to get a college education. And I’m miserable now. 🤦🏻‍♀️

    • @truth2645
      @truth2645 5 років тому

      @Dale Walker thank you for your words of encouragement and inspiration.

    • @BrokenJoeGaming
      @BrokenJoeGaming 5 років тому

      What job?

  • @philipsandquist3249
    @philipsandquist3249 3 роки тому +4

    This is the best video I've ever seen. I love his passion on this topic. I have had many long rants alone in the shower about the absurdity of university costs - so I am often considered an expert on the topic.

  • @DonzCoolVids
    @DonzCoolVids 5 років тому +16

    I've been saying this for a long time. These poor kids futures are in trouble unless we straighten this mess out.

  • @GurillaRon
    @GurillaRon 6 років тому +219

    I never let schooling get in the way of my education.

  • @seylainprogress
    @seylainprogress 5 років тому +15

    I've always heard stories from teachers saying how fun and exciting college is... But, I have always known they were full of bs. Yeah, you might have fun here and there, but at the end of the day it's a waste of time, money and more money.
    It's not worth it like it was 10 or even 20 years ago. And that disgusts me. Hell, it *terrifies* me.

  • @vincentkingsdale8334
    @vincentkingsdale8334 6 місяців тому +2

    Unless you want to become a doctor, lawyer, teacher, nurse, engineer, or any other professional....it is NOT worth it

  • @MRJ520
    @MRJ520 5 років тому +106

    I think the government & politics should not be allowed in the education system PERIOD! ZERO TOLERANCE!

    • @inthematrix4649
      @inthematrix4649 5 років тому

      I agree completely with you Michael!

    • @MartianMothman
      @MartianMothman 5 років тому +1

      Michael Richardson I think these colleges need to be taxed

    • @roland124rt4
      @roland124rt4 5 років тому +1

      Michael Richardson yea, so then no one can pay for college

    • @BitchChill
      @BitchChill 5 років тому +1

      So, no public schools?

    • @JohnDoe-mp1zk
      @JohnDoe-mp1zk 4 роки тому

      now thats about the smartest thing i have read.

  • @juliadavid5281
    @juliadavid5281 6 років тому +178

    I just finished high school and I’m so glad my parents were okay with me not going to college. I’m starting to do real estate and I’m trying to learn more about investing. I feel bad for my friends because they just don’t believe when I tell them they’re wasting their time going to a university.

    • @thecraplordsell4575
      @thecraplordsell4575 6 років тому +1

      Awesome

    • @BeingOfLight-gq4fm
      @BeingOfLight-gq4fm 6 років тому +3

      In real estate you pay little to no taxes. Good thing to get into. www.investopedia.com/articles/tax/08/real-estate-reduce-tax.asp

    • @BG-jg4pt
      @BG-jg4pt 6 років тому +9

      you wont pay 20k+ and in 4 years if you become an agent will have a giant cliental making 6 figures and if you invest too...you will be very wealthy

    • @BRBallin1
      @BRBallin1 6 років тому +24

      College is definitely worth it if you are interested in the following fields: medicine, engineering, law, business, finance
      Otherwise, go learn a trade or get certification for something and kickstart your career in less than 4 years

    • @WhatSwagLA-Musica
      @WhatSwagLA-Musica 6 років тому +3

      I'm a junior accounting student have plenty of friends already going to med school and graduating to go to higher than minimum wage jobs. It's not really a waste of time and money, you can get better paying jobs by default when you have a bachelor degree.

  • @gotsu21
    @gotsu21 3 роки тому +1

    Higher education is not to major in anything, but learning how to learn. After graduating, everything is returned back to school and start from scratch. The worst investment is textbook. Get used books or rentig digital versions.

  • @blundy1699
    @blundy1699 6 років тому +155

    The notion that college is the only path for a bright future is BS. But the popular response that college is a complete waste is also just as much BS. The point that people need to know is that college isn't a passive gateway towards success. You can't just leave high school not knowing what you want in life and sign up for college thinking that it's your best option. College is an extremely valuable tool that comes with a hefty cost. So you better know what you are buying and why you need it before you invest.

    • @edwardmaxwell3951
      @edwardmaxwell3951 6 років тому +15

      Jack Thread Absolutely! I don't regret going to college, but if I had to do it all over I would take a couple of years after high school to travel and work menial jobs at factories, fast food joints, or even at shopping malls before I head to college. I think it would have helped me get an understanding of how the world works before choosing what it is I wanted to study and do for the rest of my life.

    • @LOUDMOUTHFLAVORS
      @LOUDMOUTHFLAVORS 6 років тому +8

      There is a familiar smell coming from this comment... ahhhhhh I know what it is I'm smelling. ITS BULLSHIT! college is not worth the money at all. It's an inflated institution that preys upon those they claim to serve. The cost alone makes it worthless! The curriculum they serve up is asinine. Getting an education makes all the sense in the world, Universities do not.

    • @jamestavella1398
      @jamestavella1398 6 років тому +11

      Yeah, the key world is “Hefty cost”. It was a “hefty cost” 30-40 years ago. Now it’s down right obscene to the point of unethical.

    • @therambler3713
      @therambler3713 6 років тому

      Jack Thread basically people go to college for all wrong reasons and then when it doesn't work out they blame the whole system and say college sucks

    • @lizwheat1680
      @lizwheat1680 6 років тому +1

      I have a four year degree. We were not given any occupational counseling at all and there should have been. It wasn't as if I was ready to walk into a job ready to work with the education. I agree with you totally.

  • @mandyhaworth4154
    @mandyhaworth4154 4 роки тому +18

    Now I know why it feels like the kids are set up to fail. If that many government officials are sitting on the board, that means they’re also choosing what curriculum the kids ingest. This means from Beginning to end our kids are just being taken advantage of

    • @CarbonJackal13
      @CarbonJackal13 3 роки тому +3

      You should see the kind of bias that is being taught. School is good to teach you how to work for other people, but not for yourself.

  • @bianka.kaslana
    @bianka.kaslana 5 років тому +603

    Better have a wife with trade school diploma than one with bachelor of gender studies.

  • @prschuster
    @prschuster 3 роки тому +2

    Unless you want to be a Medical Doctor, Lawyer or Engineer, go to a cheaper community college for a two year degree in a marketable skill or go to trade school for a couple years. You may also find on the job training in some occupations.