Welcome to the Jungle.
Not Axel Rose's jungle, but Thomas Hobbes', or Upton Sinclair's.
Apparently the declining college admission rate--the fact that there are so many students applying to college today that even students with rather good High School performances aren't getting in--has gotten so bad that the Washington Post is breaking from their political coverage to inform us of our imperiled future.
Too bad for Sinclair's protagonists, but Hobbes' description of life as competition is clearly getting worse as Thomas Friedman's description of our Flat World becomes more apparent to those of us living it.
Part of me wonders how the ever-increasing drive for people to go to college is coupled with the fact that wages in all non-college (and really, non-graduate educated) positions are going down. I wonder how this is coupled with unions driving wages up, and influxes of immigrants (from countries that are economically far worse off), are playing into making the erosion of a working-middle class evaporate.
Any thoughts?
2 comments:
So what you are really saying, "ramblingbarrister", is that the real origin of the problem is 3 fold. First, we have too many frustrated high school athletes in the guise of parents. Second, travel is far too easy and accessible. And third, there too many non-productively employed lawyers. If that is the premise it follows we should eliminate most high school athletics, close down most of the Law Schools and make travel more expensive and cumbersome.
Let's see. Airline bankruptcies, consolidations, mergers, and passenger screenings higher fuel costs and more use of toll roads.
Higher tuition costs along with less money available for Grants and higher interest rates on the loans.
Looks like we already have taken care of 2 of the 3 problems. This situation may be self correcting.
Just a thought.
Seems a little harsh.
Alas, Shakespeare lives no more, but the lawyers are still among us. It doesn't appear that we have taken Shakespeare's imperative and made it reality. I guess immortality resides not in the individual but in the collective body.
What was the second item on his to do list?
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