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Originally Posted by GirlySports

There are just too many degrees. I hire accountants out of school (B.Comm) and pay $35,000. And every time I post an ad, I get 150+ applicants. $35,000 sounds low, and it is, but we subsidize them into the CA program, so that's a perk. I recently hired someone who moved from Toronto, graduated U of T and said in Toronto, the same job pays less than $30,000. Imagine accruing debt from U of T, living in Toronto and making less than $30,000. But that's the fact of life right now. Too many degrees, it's an employer's market. They can choose from anyone, degrees, good GPA, good experience for low wages. And with COVID, the number of applicants is even more. Universities charging more because they can and employers playing less because they can. As Wastedyouth mentioned, symbols of success to get that degree. The undergraduate degree trap.

This is gold.

It’s the same exact argument used to justify the exploitation of “unskilled” labour only now you’re applying it to people who actually went and got a post secondary education. Newsflash GirlySports, the reason you pay people such a low wage is because you choose to do so.