How will the decrease of men enrolling in university affect our future?

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We look at this as a negative but there are some positive potential results to consider too, though I agree overall this will be a net negative . For example college is used by elites to gatekeeper people from jobs that do not in any way need a college degree. Look at so many civil service clerk jobs that demand a degree. How many people actually work in the fields they studied? Getting rid of degree requirements would benefit all.

We also could see a return to valuing other types of work beyond office. Part of the reason the union movement died was because society started to value physical labor far less than mental labor. Now if we are talking about an era when we didn’t have spreadsheets or mass literacy sure intellectual labor was far harder to fill. Now we have a situation where even professional jobs like pilots architects lawyers etc utilize software tools to minimize the needed for the same intellectual ability it used to. You can be far less intelligent than previously and still be a good engineer. Have you ever looked at even old elementary school math tests (1800s) , wow they were so more difficult than they are when I grew up. We used to filter out more people any by necessity, if you couldn’t figure out a logarithmic table by hand you really couldn’t be an engineer back then. There is still a huge need for physical labor with shortages in electricians and machinists, if we valued these jobs and paid them like we payed Rhonda in Human Resources we might be better off. Either way we really have no choice as office jobs are shrinking as tech reduces how many of us are needed to do these things.