Everyone thinks reading is useless, and the reason for putting it on the table is that it is difficult for college students to find jobs. Now that college tuition is so high, farmers' income always takes decades. Education has become a simple market process, and not many people have the ability to learn because of luxury reasons such as "interest" or "free and all-round development". For educational institutions, it pursues the maximization of profits; For students and parents, what they pursue is to maximize utility. This "utility" is to work well and earn high income after graduation. If you can't find a job, it's equivalent to buying a refrigerator that can't be cooled. The utility is zero, and it can't be returned or guaranteed. Of course it's "useless".
Now I want to ask: the proportion of college students in the total population in China is only 8%, which is far below the average level of 24% in low-income countries in the world, not to mention 35% in the United States. Why is there such a serious employment difficulty?
Now is the era of "globalization", and everything should be viewed from a global perspective. In my opinion, the key is that China has been locked in the position of low-end processing industry in the global industrial division of labor because of blind opening and a series of industrial policy mistakes. All it needs is some blue-collar workers with technical secondary school education (some college students have an epiphany: "It's useless to read too many books, but junior high school is enough"), and there are not so many white-collar jobs for college students at all.
The mechanism of excluding college students works like this: in order to improve the consumption level of the elite as soon as possible, China's consumer goods industry often adopts the way of directly introducing production lines from abroad. As a result, China's own equipment industry (that is, the design and manufacturing technology of production lines and complete sets of equipment technology) is in trouble as a whole because it has lost its market, and a large number of state-owned enterprises have gone bankrupt, and a large number of white-collar jobs have also been lost. The direct investment of multinational corporations and the influx of foreign goods even crushed a large number of private national industries. Although foreign capital will also bring some employment opportunities, statistics show that for every employment opportunity provided by foreign capital in China, three or four jobs will be eliminated at the same time. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that "globalization" is the decisive reason for the division of labor of low-end industries in China, which indirectly leads to the current employment difficulties of college students in China.
Strangely, many college students hold a warm embrace attitude towards the process of "globalization" that leads them into trouble. In addition to the deliberate misleading of some mainstream economists, many people may think that this is conducive to bringing their consumption level into line with developed countries quickly. However, one of the most fatal misunderstandings that college students fall into is that they don't realize that they must first become "producers", that is, they must first find employment before they can become "consumers with the ability to pay". When the industries that can accommodate their own employment are crushed and college students become redundant people living on subsistence allowances, the life of the middle class with houses and cars shown in Hollywood movies may become more and more like a dream.
Understand these reasons, you will understand why reading is "useless"; We can also understand that it is difficult for college students to find a job because "the concept cannot be changed", and why it is shameful to shirk responsibility; We can also understand that it is basically useless for the education department to make a fuss about specialty setting and enrollment expansion in order to solve the employment problem. ...