We were not talking "on the average". People at the low end, compared with GDP growth, are getting killed.
They aren't being killed (at least in the US) even by that standard. In absolute terms they certainly aren't being killed. Over a period of generations they are doing slightly better. Currently things have also gotten slightly better. Pick some period in between and you can get stagnation, but that's still not "getting killed".
re: Easy to say, but completely false, and you don't even make an attempt to support it.
And I won't because I refuse to get sucked into a Timmy black hole of insignificance.
You won't because it is significant, and shows your argument to be faulty, but you don't want to acknowledge that fact.
re: A majority of high school grads go on to college, and many HS grads who do not have better jobs then McDs.
So now you are saying education isn't relevant? You change from post to post.
In directly reply to your question about people who have just a high school diploma. If your going to raise the issue, I'm not at fault for responding to it.
Also I didn't say education was irrelevant. I said that comparing people with the same level of education, is comparing apples and oranges, because the average, and the median, level of education have both increased. Compare someone with a HS diploma from my grandparents generation, to someone with the same level today, and your comparing an above average person (in terms of educational achievement) with someone at the bottom. |
