re: #352 Anymouse 🌹

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Our town went for three years without the required public health board because you need at least an RN to run one in this state. (Our new VA nurse in Sidney was pressured really hard into heading up a new board.) A government public health board deals with everything from disease outbreaks to vector control to arranging inspection for such things as public water and sewage systems.

All of those jobs require some sort of education beyond high school.

Our entire technological society as it exists today depends on technical and university graduates to run. All of it.

Speaking of the days when you could get by on a high school education leaves us with a XIX Century society and economy. (Even then, the wealthy and powerful ensured they got education.)

Our society may depend on technical and university graduates to run it — but there remain many jobs that don’t require those skills. Plumbers, electricians, truck drivers, bus drivers, caregivers etc are essential to the maintenance of our society. And many of those who are titans of the new industries don’t have degrees — Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, etc.