Right now, many of the "working class" people I know are quite well educated.
But they lost out during the Collapse of 2008-2011.
They have degrees in social work. They have degrees in nursing. They have degrees in accounting, engineering, or whatever.
But they have been forced to subsist on meager income due to the fact that their retirement was stolen away from them.
I have a friend, age 72, who just took on a full time job in a social services department here in the County. How long she will last I don't know. Were she fifteen years younger, I am sure she'd be there five or six years.
But her health is not good. Will the fact that now she has some real income perhaps help her emotionally and then many of her aches and pains go away? This is a real possibility -- if her aches and pains were stress-related.
Or will the fact that age-related aches and pains often get worse as we get older mean she won't be able to function at what is essentially a younger person's job.
So my view is: until we totally re-vamp the Banking system in this nation, the major problem is not educating anyone - it is finding the ability to have an economy that holds together so that 68 year olds don't lose everything, then barely hold on by their toe nails for four years, and then at the age of 72, start in working again!
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