re: #334 Anymouse 🌹

High school is nice, but it didn’t get us to the Moon. It doesn’t advance medical or computer science. Our entire society depends on that college education to tackle every problem from social issues to climate change.

Well, first I will point out that many people who labored on the Apollo project had just that, a HS diploma.

But more fundamentally, the need for engineers and scientists does not scale with population.

If it takes 100 engineers to design an automobile, it still takes that 100 people whether the company makes 100,000 autos or a million autos. The only increased requirement for engineering has to do with facilities, and that means just a few civil/construction engineers.

Mostly life does not consist of cutting edge knowledge.

The part of life where we need a large quantity of people with many years of post-high school education is in medicine, because the requirement for doctors does indeed scale with population.