‘I don’t know why I need to go to college’: Ford CEO says his Gen Z son worked as a mechanic and wondered if the 4-year degree was still worth it

But during the main discussion with Labor Minister Lori Chavez-Dyerir and Mike Row from the Mike Row Worms Foundation, Farli got how his family was affected. “My son worked as a mechanic this summer,” Farley revealed during the supervision.

After that, Farali said, his son asked a question that was astonished by his parents: “My father, I really love this work. I don’t know why I need to go to college.” Farley said that he and his wife looked at each other and asked, “Should we discuss this?” He added that something happens in many American families. “It should be a discussion.”

Mathematics is not mathematical

Ro, the professional defender, has long seized the data that it was found that while skilled traders enter the workforce, five retirement each year. He explained that the imbalance is “mathematics that causes us” with a decrease in the generation of children’s births and birth rates.

Ro was martyred with data from his life. He said that his own certificate cost 12200 dollars in 1984, while today will cost 97,000 dollars today.

Row said: “Nothing in the history of Western civilization has become more expensive, more quickly.” “It is not energy, not food, not real estate, not even health care, [nothing has been inflated more] From the cost of four years. ”

The Associated Press reported that, yes, many colleges were receiving nearly $ 95,000 a year as of April 2024, but the financial aid system reduces this in practice. However, it is largely correct that inflation in the tuition fees in the college, health care and housing has exceeded that, for example, TVs, games, and programs, Rowe’s clarification represents a strong point. With these high costs, the value of the value of the college is subject to dangerous scrutiny.

luck I mentioned on many Gen Z entrepreneurs who take directly to deals instead of going to college. One, in 23 years, he was already his own boss and achieved more than $ 100,000 a year, and the other, 19 years old, was working on his way. They were both side by side as influential for social media, adding another flow of revenues. Marlowe Luror, director of vocational and technical education and innovative partnerships at Misa Public Schools in Arizona, said she often gives options for different students from a four -year traditional degree.

“Our youth want to know why. Why do I need to go to college? Why do I want to take debts? Why do I want to do these things?” She said, “Because I told you that,” she no longer cuts it.

The way back to the American dream?

The work secretary, Chavez-Derimer, chanted this feeling, saying that the government, teachers and industry should participate in making skilled deals attractive to American youth.

She said, “For a very long time, we did not bring the right people to the table,” with a focus on the need for cooperation so that “companies are heard, and the value of the American workforce is estimated.”

Chavez-Skidid has argued that if the average American wanted to have a good-wage and mortgage job, they must consider strongly in the deals.

“Did you know that most of the 35 -year -old and 40 -year -old children will not be able to buy a house anywhere near the future?”

She said this is the time to live in people when they try to develop their families, and the current American economy does not put them to do so. She said that graduates of commercial schools often show earning more than $ 100,000 a year. She said that the normal graduate will issue about $ 11,000 more than the will of postgraduate studies in the college.

Row said that the main obstacle is not just an economy but a stigma.

He said: “Divorce, stereotypes, myths, and misconceptions conspired to preserve a whole generation of children from giving deals a sincere look.” Until the culture changes and people get to know the dignity and opportunities of these functions, attempts to fill the gaps in the “Quixotic or Sisyphean” workforce will be.

Artificial intelligence question

When asked about fear of artificial intelligence and robots, it might replace human workers, both members of the committee were optimistic. Chavez-Tread compared the transition to previous industrial and technical revolutions, saying: “We are adapting. We are people who are adaptable.” She emphasized that artificial intelligence will be seen as a tool that enables, not the subject of the basic workforce.

She said, “Companies re -train their employees.” “Research and development shows us this [they’re] Going to create new types of jobs. ”

“Artificial intelligence is coming for programmers, not yet for holders,” Row added, which reflects the increasing resilience and demand for trading. Each profession of the “front line” from welding to the suitability of pipes now sees a boom, and you will not touch artificial intelligence. Row was also cited with covered statements luck From the CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang about the need for blue collar workers to operate the infrastructure of the data center under the mutation of artificial intelligence. He also stated that the comments of the CEO of Blackrock Larry Fink were a $ 12 trillion portfolio, which was based on the presence of enough electricity, a sector less than hundreds of thousands of workers.

“The largest executives in our country [are ringing] “The metaphorical warning bell,” said, “The Macro Problem” can be solved by the basic economy.

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