>>52844487Basically.
The US has an outdated university system from the 1950s-90s era when EVERY field of technology was exploding, so (because it was likely that specialist knowledge would be obsoleted by the time you actually 'got' your degree) it made more sense to just train everybody in the generic fields and let them specialize through on-the-job training.
The issue, though, is that people hold those jobs for multiple generations because college if effectively a glorified hazing ritual and it's your on-the-job experience that actually matters. I've met guys in their 90s who were still employed. On top on that, people took the wrong lesson that 'GO TO COLLEGE = AWESOME JOB' and basically everyone sent their kids to university for said generic degrees. Most basic principle of economics: Scarcity is value. Because 90% of people go to college these days, a college degree might as well be a fucking cereal-box prize.
So, no new openings are being created. The number of people with the basis to fill said credentials is bloated and those with it can be coerced to work for less remuneration, and outsourcing is outright depleting domestic jobs. What it's led to is a system which is idiotically top-heavy. The younger 2-3 generations have sunk themselves into debt for degrees which aren't usable without additional on-the-job experience which they have a bad chance of actually getting.
There 'are' trade-school jobs which teach you had to 'be' a mechanic or an electrician or the like, but those are actually generally regarded as having a lower social status in the states because the older generation (which basically lucked into easy money) still think of the obsolete American golden age system they knew as the 'right' form of education.
