rant · moment 11 of 28
College Ended Around 2019
from Lame Duck Donald & The Immigration Nation | The Tim Dillon Show #470 · #470
3 min
Tim argues the university system has been dead since students graduating around 2019 realized their degrees led nowhere but debt and bartending, citing average student loan debt figures.
- College's golden era ran from Animal House to around 2019, when the first wave of debt-burdened graduates discovered their degree meant tending bar.
- The side hustle students worked during school became their actual career after graduation.
- College no longer prepares people for the world—it does the opposite, burying them in debt, substance abuse problems, and ignorance.
- Average undergraduate debt is $30,000 to $40,000; graduate students carry around $100,000, and many graduates have no jobs to pay it back.
- Tim skipped college and regrets it in a way—he wouldn't have become a comedian if he'd gone, and his entire life would have diverged.
- Most people claim your choices don't matter and you end up in the same place either way, but Tim disagrees—there are actual paths, and you choose one.
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