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Follow this chain of events:

* The US economy nearly requires a degree for economic success

* US demographics cliff results in a heavy short fall of student enrollments

* US Federal government deeply cuts funding for universities

* US higher education offers remote learning to attract students and reduce costs, much of which deeply lowers the standard of education

* LLMs are deeply integrated into social products including snapchat and twitter

* LLMs are capable of completing a significant amount of curriculum

* The US Department of Education is removed, including teams responsible for tracking academic success on a national and state level

Words like collapse are I think not the right word. But the long term institutional harm of this sequence of events may hit the country very hard. Bringing back factory jobs ain't gonna fix it, if tariffs are even capable of doing that.



Just to note:

Percentage of people with a college degree: 37.7%

The majority of the country never needed college to obtain the success that they have had. I do concede that it is a positive economic indicator though.

Millenial generation is the largest generation in US history, big generations typically produce big generations. The US currently has a pretty good population pyramid: https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...

Right now Gen Z is coming into adulthood, they are one of the smallest generations. After that is Gen Alpha the kids of millenials, University funding might change to reflect that.




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