{"id":506,"date":"2010-06-20T14:27:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T18:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2010-06-20T14:27:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T18:27:53","slug":"further-evidence-that-higher-education-is-a-bad-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Further evidence that higher education is a bad bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to play poker with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbendtribune.com\/article\/20100617\/News01\/6170336\/-1\/XML\">this 26-year-old college dropout<\/a> at a local neighborhood bar. His $1 million+ lifetime earnings as a professional poker player shames any pride I might have had in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pokerpages.net\/player-profile\/john-kindley.htm\">my own amateurish $18k- payday<\/a>. But playing poker contributes nothing to society, you remonstrate? Fair enough. <a href=\"http:\/\/whoisioz.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/rebranding-inner-potential-that-is-best.html\">But consider:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Persistent unemployment is not a problem because employees and employers are &#8220;mismatched,&#8221; one of those callous Management euphemisms that will one day take its rightful place alongside such Third-Reichisms as &#8220;transport.&#8221; It&#8217;s a problem because our economy is a castle made of bullshit built on a bullshit foundation foundering in a swamp of bullshit. It is not an absence of skills and abilities that curtails and limits the prospects of gainful labor; it is <em>an absence of any industry requiring any labor<\/em>. Yes, it was lovely that we had a decade or two in which fake jobs full of people pimping their fake skills abounded, but that wave crested and rolled back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to play poker with this 26-year-old college dropout at a local neighborhood bar. His $1 million+ lifetime earnings as a professional poker player shames any pride I might have had in my own amateurish $18k- payday. But playing poker contributes nothing to society, you remonstrate? Fair enough. But consider: Persistent unemployment is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}