>>82161318
No, that was objectively untrue.
There where useless degrees for years, unless you wanted to be in academia for the rest of your life you needed a STEM, finance, or a law degree to really have it be relevant.
Educators lied about this to increase enrollment numbers for the universities so they and lenders would get more money.
The time window to learn to code was easily between 2005-2015. Any later and you have 3rd worlders who are willing to work for pennies compared to what anyone in a develop western country would accept for payment. Employers care little about the quality of labor compared to the cost of labor. Now with AI, people who got invested into coding are risking having their jobs lost from AI since mid level management and shareholders really only cares about the perceived productivity in the number of lines of code written per hour of wage. They don't care that 90% of the code written by AI is garbage. There was no way to anticipate that this would have happened back in 2017 when the "learn to code" meme was spammed ad nauseum.
Also I have friends that work in the trades. While yes, they do get paid more than minimum wage, but barely. What has happened is that he went to trade school, paid for basically the equivalent of one year of university, and then had to buy around an extra $14k in tools and equipment. All of that effort and cost for a job that literally would take around 5,200 working hours, or 2.7 years of work assuming nothing goes wrong with the trade like working for a bad company, or external factors like a slow season, or just not being given full time even after working for them for 90 days.
You can't fault people for making bad choices when they where lied to as children about what they should do in life. Because nearly all of the advice that has been given was already outdated when it was spoken or an outright lie. We are not born with foresight and barely know how the world works when we graduate from high school.
