Originally Posted by Val
None of those degrees teach the kinds of skills that people need to create new technologies or improve existing ones. I wonder how many of these graduates (except the ones in health sciences) are stuck with big student loans in (low paying?) jobs outside their fields.

I'm personally trying to answer the question "Will western industrial civilization peak and then decline due to energy issues? Has it already peaked? If it hasn't peaked, but will peak, when will it peak?"

If I can't answer those questions, I sure can't answer "should college be for everyone".

Because if there is a peak issue coming up in the next several decades, that's going to push people back into agriculture sometime in the next century.