The whole education system -- which is really more the university certification system -- has gotten so out of whack with cost-benefit though. Can you really justify a masters in many cases if you end up not being able to apply it?
Perhaps not. But like I said, the degree market is essentially saturated. Not enough jobs out there to sustain all the art history, business, and childhood development majors. So if you don't have even a bachelors in any of those, you're in big trouble competing with folks with masters. Far too many folks go to college that really have no business doing so.
Good on globalization there. But divorcing capitalism with governance is kind of folly, really. A lot of financial models (especially the power rule kind) end up with fiefdoms and enslaved masses.
What's the difference from that and the current reality? Here, we have had vast government intervention for decades, yet the income gap continues to grow and the majority of the population is either a debt slave or living off some type of government crack. A little more on topic, but look at how the folks in this thread consider poor blacks, as if they all are unable to help themselves. These Keynesian ideologies really belittle folks, pushing them towards 21st century debt slavery or dependence upon government intervention. So while some think financial models based on less intervention are the at the root of all evil, Cloward-Piven strategy is far worse as everyone becomes subservient whether they like it or not. Apart from the political and banker class, of course.
That is freaking trippy. I was just on jury duty last month on a court case where a black kid in custody bangs the crap out of himself to intentionally injure himself in a police van ... with the testimony that cops couldn't seatbelt him at the time because he was so violent they first needed to try to get a spitmask on him and didn't have one for all the biting and spitting. It's almost the exact same behavior.
Wow, that is strange. Perhaps this is some sort of strategy they use in the hood for eventual defenses. Not surprising, criminals will do anything.
Fact of life: don't break the law and you'll stand a better chance.