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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
Actually the post I was responding to said that. But probably the same place you're getting your "University grads are taking every job they can" "statistic". That may be true and if so, that's the problem. They're taking jobs instead of having even the first thought of what to do instead of taking a job. Eventually we're going to run out of jobs. My problem is how useless degrees are for what people actually want to accomplish in life. 80% of occupy wall street (unyc study) had university degrees. They may have been employed but obviously they were not achieving what they had hoped. $15 an hour isn't going to solve that.
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Despite your total ignorance about how difficult it is to enter the job market or start your own business with sky high labour and capital markets, you do have a point about their being too many useless degrees out there.
Canada and the US are one of the few countries without centralized education systems. In Europe, education is typically cheaper, but they severely limit the number of students in each field. They have organizations that look at the job market and allocate a specific number of spots in each field, based on demand in the economy.
They also divert students into more trade orientated programs in high school.
In North America we have a university system, which teaches people that if you don't get a degree your somehow less worthy of a person. Now we have unemployed graduates, and we import in tradesmen from Europe.