Why would someone go to college and then abandon their degree to learn a trade?

The whole point of college is to get a desk job and to avoid manual labor.

Plumbers have to literally scoop poop out with their hands once in a while.

> Why would someone go to college and then abandon their degree to learn a trade?

Because they can't find a job in the area they studied.

So do surgeons once in a while

> The whole point of college* is to get a desk job and to avoid manual labor.

* most colleges

San Diego's tap water tastes truly awful. The first time I ever traveled to another city (Denver), I was forced to drink the tap water and could not believe how good it tasted.

San Diego has the worst tap water for drinking I have ever experienced in the US. When I lived there, pretty much everyone had a reverse osmosis system installed to make it drinkable.

Fortunately, I live in the Pacific Northwest currently, which generally has some of the best tasting water you’ll find anywhere. No one would dream of not drinking the tap water.

There's plenty of small businesses in Japan that straight-up ask you to leave at the door if you look foreign, despite being fluent.

A lot of landlords refuse to rent to any non-Japanese people, despite being fluent.

A xenophobic society won't even let you participate fully, much less integrate, no matter how well you speak the language.

Over 20% of American adults have a literacy proficiency at or below Level 1. This is defined as "difficulty using or understanding print materials" and "may struggle to understand texts beyond filling out basic forms." So 1 out of every 5 Americans is functionally illiterate. I would say that counts as "many of them don't even know how to read."

No, the subjects are already interesting. What we need is to pay teachers a good, above-average wage, and to continuously invest in their professional development throughout their careers. Only a good, well-trained teacher can make a subject interesting and engaging.

The "good old boys" stereotype is a stereotype for a reason: it doesn't actually happen in meaningful numbers.

If you get paid well, have good benefits, and can't get fired arbitrarily (union still allows for firing based on performance), it turns out your workers will be happier and more productive.

Also, if labor costs (paying a decent wage) tank a massive jet company, they already had many other problems under the hood. Your argument is also proven to be false, because Airbus (heavily unionized) has been eating Boeing's lunch for years since they didn't greedily spin-off everything nor slacked on quality control for the shareholders for short-term gain.

it's more likely that these companies would rather save a few pennies by introducing a new 64 kbps codec that reduces quality by only 10%, while offering the old codec's bitrate as a “fidelity mode” for premium+ subscribers.

I didn't know posting racist conspiracy theories with no evidence was allowed on this website...

Blaming victims and being ignorant is a choice, one you made multiple times in this thread.

Pay for Kagi or any other good, paid search engine, which is already superior to Google today?

Right, you get ads, or you pay. Businesses aren't charities.

So the existence of for-pay search engines would disprove the assertion that advertisements are necessary, as there are alternate ways to find information and fund businesses that fetch you that information, without relying on ads.