
Should There Be Less Education? A conversation with Bryan Caplan
Philosophy of Education
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Why Do We Need More Degrees to Get a Job?
In the book, i go over the evidence on this is, we've got data going back like 80 years, and yet there has been some increase in the cognitive complexity of jobs. But it is totally normal these days for people to college degrees to work as waiters or to drive cabs or to be cashiers. These are not just hen or hen pick stories to go and inflame the masses,. We can see that high percentages of people in these seemingly menial occupations now have college degrees. As degrees proliferate, employers naturally raise the credential requirements instep with the availability of the redentials. And if you take something that we do to our toddlers, so this is outside the
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