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Massive advantages in education? With higher education requirements, the average worker is now forced - if they want to make the same wage they would have in 1972 - to pay for their own job training, college education etc. That people have to go into debt to get an education to make what they could have without it 40 years ago you're presenting as something positive.

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I'm saying the median 25 year old today is more educated than his 1973 counterpart. That has a host of benefits, including qualification for jobs that not only pay more, but are less physically strenuous and more mentally engaging.

Nobody's forced to go to college. They do it (hopefully) because it's a good investment in their own success and happiness. And let's be frank: The government has made sure it's incredibly easy to finance, and if it feels like a huge burden to be there rather than working shifts at a steel mill, you're probably doing it wrong.

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