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Kids are ditching traditional college for career tech programs. Parents are concerned.
(www.usatoday.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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So when boomers came into the workforce they did not need college degrees to get ahead. After they had gotten ahead and were in charge, new employees started needing college degrees to get ahead.
And you think they didn't set it up themselves? If they didn't, who did?
Chiming in that I do agree with this specific sentiment. I think the issue with your overall statement is that it seems to imply that all boomers did this, while it only applies to the ones that got ahead. The system we've been living in for ages has been creating and rewarding cutthroat psychopathic/sociopathic tendencies - so it absolutely makes sense that the people that rose up in the economic ladder abused their position accordingly.
Yes, clearly not all boomers did this. My dad didn't go to college and is the trades. He isn't making any rules about people needing college.
I'm all for hating the boomers. If you want to blame the disappearance of American manufacturing and the weakening of organized labor on Boomers, I'm all for that. They availability of higher education for the masses to the point where a college degree became a barrier to entry is something that came about thanks to the prosperity boom after WWII. Remember yuppies? Those fuckers were boomers enjoying the advantages their parents and socialist reforms laid at their feet.
So no. Boomers didn't make college a barrier to entry, but they did milk their good fortune and left very little for those that came after them.