Byron Auguste: belief

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…Jobs where you have to learn a new digital tool — those typically require at least a four-year college degree. If learning that stuff is so easy, why should the jobs require the college degree? I think the word “require” is doing a lot of work there, Tyler. By that definition, 75 percent of admin assistant jobs require a bachelor’s degree even though two-thirds of admin assistants don’t have a bachelor’s degree. When you have a couple of million people doing a job without a degree, and that job requires them doing a degree, maybe we should reevaluate what “requires” means. I don’t talk about those jobs requiring a degree. I think companies often screen out people. They preemptively pre-screen people who don’t have a degree, but that’s not the same as saying it requires it. Sure, but there’s a probability distribution. Wouldn’t you agree that people with a college degree would be considerably more able to learn new pieces of software than people without, even though a few million of those without certainly have done it?…

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