You’re both comparing apples to oranges.
I’m 30 just for context.
You both sound more like 50-60.
A high school educated is more a like a middle/elementary school education now a days.
A college education is your day is more like a non-medical Doctorate in your day.
Really it is true.
Asking a real business company to not use bachelor’s degree as a qualification is ridiculous. Do you know how easy it is to get one these days? IT IS LITERALLY A JOKE.
There are so many “institutes” and “junior colleges” and “universities” that are not more than an office or two in a building that the government has given true legitimacy too, that have the lowest standards around or cirriculums like bullshit “hugs and love” studies-— and that’s who/what you risk hiring even with that requirement.
Honestly a high school education is as good as saying “I can count to 20 trust me..... just wait till I grow two more hands”
Don’t get mad... the truth hurts, I know.
For context, I’m 72.
For further context, I graduated in 1966 (from a real college), when the degree actually meant something, as you acknowledge. At that time only 6.5% of the population 25 and older had a college degree. I think it’s around 28 percent now and growing.
I don’t know about your assertions regarding the legitimacy of degrees. I would think, though, that any medium to large corporation would check out a degree presented to see if it’s not one of those from a “degree mill.” There are certification boards throughout the USA, as you may know, and they can tell anybody in a company that wishes to be thorough in their qualification process whether the one on his desk is legitimate. So, that’s not the problem that you think it is.
I just outlined in one of my previous posts the Supreme Court decision in 1971 and its possible implications regarding qualifying applicants for jobs. And that’s all I wanted to do. Whether you understand it is not my problem.
But of course, I defer to your superior knowledge and experience, your being much younger than I.