Delivery driver making $80k. Totally negates the value of a college degree. Embarrassing.
The idea behind science is not to study it because you'll make a lot of money off of it. Even less it is so for humanitities.
If they're having you use your own vehicle and not forcing you to adhere to a specific schedule, they can probably do it.
Sure, some people are very self motivated and don't need a degree to help them grow. But for most, it lends them more options and also more ammunition for future career growth. Most high end jobs or opportunities today are intellectual/knowledge skill based.
Most of the US population lives (and will die having lived with) making less than that annualy.
He seemed to be targeting a specific group that's considered "ambitious." One could argue that everyone is ambitious but I'm sure his point was that those people who aren't satisfied with low-wage jobs and want to do something they see as important, would consider 80K "not enough."
Why now, in 2014, one with a B.S. makes about as much despite all that knowledge escapes me as well.
So you have to take into account current value of a college degree and value based on future evolution.
Automating a delivery driver is actually a harder problem than it appears unless you can convince people to accept packages dropped on the curb. I would not lay odds on that being the next job to be automated out of existence.
Totally negates the value of some college degrees. And to be frank, it's unclear why some of those degrees exist in the first place (beyond just bringing in easy tuition money to the university while making the students feel that they are following their dreams).