Writing from a UK perspective here - the idea of a 'ticket to the middle class' is wrong on so many levels.

Writing from a UK perspective here - the idea of a 'ticket to the middle class' is wrong on so many levels. Fundamentally I have trouble with the idea of making college the battleground. First of all, the actual pool of bona fide middle class jobs is quite small as far as I can see. Being able to shop at Waitrose is not interesting. If you have no net worth and your parents have no net worth you are not middle class. A mortgage in London on a 1BR flat with the maximum reasonable commute requires a 50K annual income. Outside of the capital; similar situation but with the numbers scaled down. There are jobs that exist paying this well, yes, but they are certainly not common. That is to say that graduating is not necessarily good enough. It might be a good result, or good internships, or talent, or prestige (e.g. an elite university). Income inequality is not the issue; wealth inequality is (specifically, the middle class now sits on levels of wealth that look intergenerational from where I stand). College should not be pulled in to this. College should be about education. About helping people to appreciate and understand this world we have around us. About making adults out of children. The capitalist economy is broken for youth today. Sending them to college won't fix that except for a tiny privileged few.

Posted by stegosaurus on Apr 26, 2015, 11:50 PM

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