Thanks ! I love you too in a human kindness way ! <| sep |> The country needs hairdressers . And bin men . Sure . They ' re just going to have on going wage cuts in real terms . The post war economy produced lots of growth that was spread across the classes . The genius of capitalism meant that you didn ' t have to be a striver to benefit from it . Everyone benefited from the growth through technological innovation . That is what ' s supposed to happen . The system is explicitly not going to reward those people in the future and probably stopped some time ago . Now everyone is supposed to be a some kind of temporarily embarrassed entrepreneur . So an micro level yes I ' d still tell people to get an education . On a macro level the serious the problem is with governments and the elite . Like the joke about the bank . If you owe the bank 100 that ' s your problem . If you owe the bank 100 million , that ' s the bank ' s problem . One person with on low pay is a personal crisis . Millions of people on low and decreasing pay in the Western world is a national crisis and an existential problem for the global elite . Their rules , their problem . My view is that enhanced adult education , more communitycollege nightclasses , etc would be excellent . There ' s stuff I ' d love to go and study as an interest , but it ' s not directly going to get me a job , and I ' m not going to sign up for a 1000 OU course just out of interest . I ' m not going to go to uni fulltime any time soon because y ' know , I have a mortgage and a job . But I ' d like to be able to study them and specifically in a structured environment because I personally learn more effectively with a teaching lead than through straight selfdirected learning . This sounds like Blair ' s Education , Education , Education . I mean it ' s great , I ' m all for self directed education , all of it . It ' s just not a macro solution , it ' s a personal solution . Indeed we have such great access to information and training now that the value of education has changed . What it ' s still great for is networking . In fact in a flat earth the value of networking become more important . If all education is equally excellent then it would still make sense to have an expensive exclusive school or University because it gives you access to other powerful people and their ways . I feel very strongly that being uneducated is very wrong and harmful to their future and our countries workforce . I think you need some perspective . Anyone leaving a UK school at 16 or 18 will have more education than 95 % of the world ' s population . But the UK school leaver is going to have to compete for a wage against the rest of the world . Of course the chance that small number of people are always going to be better than the rest of the world is unlikely . The pool of global talent will always be higher . Now , that doesn ' t mean they should just go to work and never study again , but that also doesn ' t mean they need to go through uni . You don ' t become educated at 21 . You should never stop learning . Uni can be a kickstart into a specific career , but it doesn ' t make someone educated . Uni is not a guarantee . A bad degree is a bad degree . People can succeed without Uni but their chances are smaller . The problem needs two perspectives the micro and the macro .