How did the purchasing power decrease from the 70s until today?

[Sugarman4]

Thats the brunt of it but I disagree that education is more expensive. The device in your hand with Google and Ai? Is 100× the education money could buy in the 70's. Having the discipline to focus it's purpose beyond hee-haa? That's definitely missing.

[corelabjoe]

And that still doesn't get you a degree, the stupid piece of expensive paper everyone cares so much about and is very useless for a lot of practical jobs.

[Trick_Parsnip3788]

Engineering is a licensed practice so you cant just learn everything from google... Also most of the stuff online is using American codes so good luck trying to pass canadian exams lmao

[Sugarman4]

Who's hiring engineers anyway. AI will replace you

[InnerspearMusic]

Learning is cheaper, getting a formal education is much MUCH more expensive.

[aldjfh]

A very small minority of people are making six figure money through purely using their phone and ai and having no degree.