content: Maybe people on voat already knew this but I recently heard that for the last few decades, since 'civil rights' legislation, sophisticated employers had been using college degrees as a proxy for race since the law made it difficult to discriminate directly. In the past, college degrees really were the key to a bright future--but not necessarily because of anything intrinsic to schooling. Their value as a proxy for either race or general intelligence has been steadily breaking down as politicians have sold large portions of the electorate on the idea that everyone has the right to go to college. As many of us have sensed, degrees are becoming, at best, a poisoned indication of someone who's stubbornly refused to keep up with the times and undertaken massive debt to do so.