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There was an entire generation, if not two generations of young men and women who were told that they must, not
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should, not it's nice to, they must go to university. And these folks took out an enormous amount of financial support
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to do so. And part of the underlying reason was that they were told and it sounds very credible. Technology is
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coming and there's going to be so much automation of all of the other kinds of jobs that you may do in a trade school.
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You should go to university and protect yourself. Well, lo and behold, it's turned out to be the exact opposite. So,
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could you imagine where, you know, you could have gone to trade school, been an electrician, been a plumber, made a
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couple hundred grand, married somebody, she does a good job. Now, all of a sudden, she also makes $150, $200,000 a
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year. You're making $400,000 and you have no debt. That is the key. You have no debt.
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When you make 400K and have no debt, I'm sorry, but it's probably actually better
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than being the doctor making a million bucks. And then there are all of these other jobs that aren't a doctor where
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you're still saddled with the 300,000 and you have no way of paying it back. There was a framing of the issue for an
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entire generation that was probably wrong. If I had to bet, I would bet that engineers are more likely to have their
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jobs sort of replace in the short term than welders and plumbers.