I can remember early in Clinton's presidency when Robert Reich was Secretary of Labor and the problems of manufacturing jobs moving oversees were becoming evident. Reich started talking about the 'knowledge' economy and the fact that since all good paying manufacturing jobs were a thing of the past, all workers in the US would have to have college degrees. In essence they were claiming that the US was becoming the managerial class for the world. They put lots of money and emphasis on community colleges.
It's a pipe dream. There will always be a significant portion of any nation's population which for good and bad reasons will not go to college. Those people deserve a decent life. Even if a the percentages of college graduates go up, as B points out, were just upping the ante. We'll be increasing the education levels of the un/underemployed and probably greatly increasing resentment in the process as the wealth of the upper class increases by exploiting third world labor and the wages of the working classes move downward to be on a par with the third world.

See 'Marx's Revenge'.

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