After all, even those whose parents pay for their education do make a financial investment - - - the kids who go to work right out of high school make less per year but they get a 4 year head start!!!!! Considering the time value of money, the college-educated don't catch up to the non-college educated in terms of lifetime earnings until their mid-to-late 30s (depending upon post-college profession), even BEFORE CONSIDERING the financial cost of the college education.
And let's consider the different type of work done, and the different environment. Explaining white collar work to my high school friends who chose to make a career out of what we did for summer jobs is like the kids' book "Fish is Fish" but it IS a lot more difficult, and there's more risk - there's a problem to be solved and if you get it wrong, or get a few wrong, you're fired, and everyone in your field knows why you were fired.
So..... is it really "unfair" that educated, white collar workers make more?
2007-08-14
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