Reply #16: The absurdity of your position, and the poverty . . .

[Chomskyite]

"If people go to school to get a job that does not pay very well they will have to work a 2nd job to pay for it. That is their decision to go into that field."

So we're now asking 18-year-olds to be economic forecasters along the lines of Warren Buffett? We ask them to make a decision now for a major that will be viable and lucrative (which is what today's student loan repayments take) in four years? Remember how good tech majors looked in 97? How good Arabic language programs probably look today?

Were you an expert macroeconomist when you were a teenager? Should we tolerate a system that requires our children to be?

Good lord.