Dont' discount the value of learning a skilled trade.

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Seems natural that institutes of higher education would expand in a post-industrialist society. It makes sense that as the need for human labor decreases through technological advancement, that more people self actualize via learning. The real problem is that we're not forward thinking enough to properly restructure our society to support these advancements. Instead we allow obscene amounts of wealth to be concentrated and invested against the interests of the general population, even though they're the backbone of the wealth creation in the first place.