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45% of Companies Plan to Eliminate Bachelor Degree Requirments: You can’t buy experience, and talent doesn’t come from institutionalism

It hasn’t been that long; the temptations for some global world order would try to resurrect the old European values once travel and communication became easy.  But the concept of a college education isn’t ancient, but the values of good labor are as old as time.  And the experiment, like many concepts of globalism, has come to a crashing end.  In 2024, 45% of companies plan to eliminate their bachelor’s degree requirements so they can access labor that is more appropriate for their needs.  The world has figured out something it has been trying to hide for at least half a century: you can’t buy your way into intelligence, which was the assumption with college programs.  Then, to make matters worse, it was the colleges who were the first around the world to adopt a World Economic Forum outlook, where to get a degree after you’ve paid these excessively liberal people a fortune of your hard-earned money, you had to become some form of desecrator of social order to get a good enough grade to graduate.  When I think of college, the very first thing that jumps into my mind is illicit sex and way too much drinking.  And after four years of that lifestyle, what kind of people do we think are produced for the world?  Partying is the value system that the college brand sold to the world, and for liberalism, it became the boot camp of society.  Those who did it and endured it were rewarded with white color jobs at a higher rate of pay.  But what companies have had to admit, especially after Covid, is that they don’t need or want those kinds of job fulfillment from college degree types of people.  And they are turning away from the college scam. 

Key findings:

  • 45% of companies plan to eliminate bachelor’s degree requirements for some positions in 2024
  • 55% of companies eliminated bachelor’s degree requirements in 2023
  • 70% say they eliminated bachelor’s degree requirements to create a more diverse workforce
  • 4 in 5 employers value experience over education when evaluating job candidates
  • Two-thirds of employers have candidates complete test assignments

I know many people with Master’s degrees and Ph.D.s. Most of the people I deal with daily are people with advanced degrees and get very excited when their favorite college teams play a sporting event like basketball or football.  It would be an understatement to say they lose their minds on rationality on such occasions.  I also know many backyard geniuses who run derby cars on hot summer nights at fairgrounds to roaring crowds who barely graduated high school.  My wife and I have also been to college, so I have seen a lot of what works and doesn’t over the years, and I’ve never been a fan of the college approach to labor fulfillment.  In 2021, the scam was revealed when the political left took things too far and showed all their cards with the same kind of process they used to sucker companies into hiring their college graduates over other types of employees.  This time, it was the attempt to launch the COVID-19 vaccine shot in the same way, and it was interesting to see how corporate behavior went into instant compliance mode.  The way that corporate behavior adapted to COVID mandates, social distancing, and vaccine shot compliance was precisely the game that was played with pay scales and access to white color jobs in corporate environments.  College was designed to remove merit from the hiring process and ignore raw genius in exchange for adherence to a global administrative state.  The experiment has failed dramatically, and companies are no longer willing to suffer the impacts of such a lackluster workforce. 

My experience with college applicants is that it might give them some discipline structurally in social conditions that they might not have acquired from their parents, but it fails to do anything to provide them with some level of intelligence.  Many of these people would have been better off watching The Wizard of Oz as kids.  The degree they get only has an actual use as a psychological mechanism.  It does little to nothing for an employer looking for that next genius that can bring them a competitive edge over their rivals in marketplace capitalism.  College was never designed to do what it was selling: to be an institution of intelligence. Instead, they became incubation factories for liberalism and were created from the start to be so.  I wish they were different, but they have only been around in popular culture since entering the 20th Century.  But labor has existed since the beginning of time, and our measure of good and bad labor hasn’t changed.  It was based on performance, and to hire the college graduate of liberalism, we had to ignore those rules and assume that the piece of paper that cost many tens of thousands of dollars to get, and untold personal desecrations of an individual lifestyle, were going to benefit companies in some way.  To say that the experiment of global liberalism has been very costly to companies over the last several decades has been a severe understatement, and now, since Covid put everything on the front page, companies are finally admitting to the failure.  You can’t buy talent; you have to develop it with experience. 

Most people reading this are probably college graduates but think about it before you get too defensive.  What is the first thing you think of when considering college?  I remember a lot of nice girls and guys who managed to get out of high school somewhat intact, as virgins who did not drink at all or say curse words (this was in the 80s) who, by the time they were away from their parents in a college, turned into complete lunatics.  I knew one such girl who was clean as a whistle, graduated high school and was most poised to enter adult life as Mary Poppins.  I saw her next at Miami University on a Friday night, being gang raped on the hood of a car with her clothes ripped off and thrown everywhere, nearly passed out from intoxication.  People were walking by like it was an everyday occurrence.  People didn’t have cell phones back then, so nobody recorded it.  But nobody was all that shocked.  These days, the whole thing would be a video on Porn Hub.  It happens every night somewhere, especially on college campuses.  And that poor girl was ruined for life, never to recapture what she had been and never would.  She got a good job, but was she a good employee?  Of course not; she was destroyed and would remain that way for the rest of her life.  Her kids would always know, and so would her husband.  And everyone who was there with her that night.  And that wasn’t the last time for her.  She had three more years of college.  College was never about getting more brilliant for the political left and their desire for an administrative state.  It was about desecrating the Christianized America and forcing them through the gauntlet so that their kids could get a better job than they had when the parents were kids themselves.  And they’d throw their kids into that rat race to save them from blue-collar work that the world didn’t respect.  But the game has not produced what employers want, which is actual skill, and now they are paying for it.  They are finally making the necessary changes they should have all along and admitting that the college-trained employee is not very good for them.  What they want is talent built by experience.  And there is no way to cheat that.  You have to live life to gain that experience, and desecrating yourself in public drunk on a weekend of debauchery hasn’t helped corporate America be very competitive.  And now they are finally admitting to it.

Rich Hoffman

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College Was Always a Dumb Idea: The creation of an ‘expert’ class in America has nearly destroyed our country

I have an article that has been one of my most popular over the last 12 years titled, The Most Successful People Who Didn’t Go to College, and it’s a long list. Looking at that list, it is quite evident that college doesn’t make people successful. Honestly, it likely hinders success; it holds people back. It doesn’t advance them the way it was intended in the socialist novel for which college educations are based in America, Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward, written in 1888.   Knowing what we do now, with over a hundred years of the scam fully deployed, we can see what that mode of attack was and how effective it was for the wrong things, the creation of a class system in America, of a corporate expert class that was more of a European concept than an American one. Clearly, now, America’s workforce and the people of the culture were far better off without college. The greatest economy in the world was created with the most diverse people populating it. But the scam came in much the way that the Federal government tried to backdoor Covid vaccine mandates. They made a tiered system for which they managed to get corporations to play along. Go to college so you can get a good job with some big corporation. Go to their liberal-controlled schools. Pay them extraordinarily high fees. Replace the parent by sending the kid away from the family and let the liberal institution become the next influence on the young mind. Do all these things so that corporations could get a nice compliant socialist, a top-down “expert.” And the same companies who are now woke, which is about everyone, were the first to sign up and say that they wouldn’t hire the right people for the right job; instead, they’d only hire the person with the degree even if a better person was available who didn’t go through the liberal meat grinder. 

As a result of this government/corporate alliance, we have ended up with an army of expert bureaucrats like Dr. Fauci due to this misguided approach to education. You can go to just about any major company, and populating their white-collar culture is an endless parade of Dr. Fauci types. These mindless bureaucrats bring socialism to their culture and hold the company back. They certainly don’t help it because they have learned all the wrong things. I have argued for years that the college experience was not worth it, that America would have been far better off not participating in that European mindset. College was sold to America as a globalist idea. We didn’t need it. In America, hard work and intelligence were the criteria that capitalism rewarded. If people wanted to be successful, then they could get there through hard work and perseverance.   College told students that a degree would make them successful, and a countless stream of do-gooder parents got suckered into the scam. After all, who wants their children to have a bad life? The college concept told them that their child would have an open door to a good, high-paying job by paying for college. And corporations are obliged only to hire college graduates. It was, in essence, an early version of a Covid Passport concept. Because they were so successful with the college concept, the Desecrators of Davos thought they could get away with the massive Covid scam that killed millions of people and destroyed the lives of many millions more.   The people who Covid easily suckered turned out to be all the college graduates who have their professional work environments decorated with symbols of their alma mater. They were the ones wearing their masks in their cars with the windows rolled up during Covid. They were the ones so easily suckered by the expert class, and in the aftermath, they were the ones most damaged by what happened. 

I say all this as a person who knows a lot of people with advanced degrees. The process does not destroy everyone. I know several people who have Master’s degrees and doctorates, even multiple doctorates.   But I don’t see that it has really helped them become smarter. A real education never stops; it involves knowing many things very well. And it can’t be purchased. Most people in any field of endeavor, including the medical occupations, would do better in apprentice programs than in what they learned in medical school. For all the lawyers out there who put so much effort into law school, we saw recently how great legal minds like Rudy Guiliani were treated, even with all the academic and professional bells and whistles. If he didn’t play ball with some institutional desire, his BAR Association membership could be removed instantly. That has made a compliant class of adults afraid to rock the boat against the established order, which isn’t an American idea. Most corporations are filled with people who were taught in college to get along to keep their jobs, so they check their opinions at the door and never speak up. We also saw during Covid where doctors had the threat of their licenses removed from them if they didn’t get on the Dr. Fauci bandwagon of denying hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid instead of pushing the pharmaceutical approach with vaccines. Kids learned in college that the usually liberal professor sets the ground rules for passing the class. Colleges taught students what to think, not how to think, and that basic premise is the foundation for everything that went wrong during Covid. College graduates, especially at the corporate leadership level, were too quick to abandon critical thinking and instead did exactly what the government told them to do. And too many people did it without question.

I’ve put out the alarm for many years. I went to college, and I thought it was terribly stupid. It was a worthless experience. I was always learning and thought of education as reading books in a Waffle House at 4 AM in the morning, which is how I spent most of my twenties. I never learned not to think and pursue knowledge, and the only use college did have was getting an opportunity to interview for a big job. My wife went to college as well, and it was also useless for her. We were never compliant people, so college ran against everything we stood for. Those most successful in college have turned out to be those least able to innovate in the world or think for themselves when needed. They demonstrate institutional compliance but not critical thinking. And the walls all came crashing down regarding the concept, with Covid showing where all the cracks really are in our society. The idea of an “educated class” in America has no real place in our free and open society. It has been just another socialist experiment gone wrong. It created a culture of worthless expert class losers who have ruined everything they have touched and driven America into the arms of globalism, which has been detrimental. And the price is obvious now. It’s hard for people to admit how suckered they were for jumping through all the hoops to accommodate the college degree scam, but it’s time to have an advanced discussion about the worthlessness of the college experience. It has not been suitable for American life. It’s the wrong idea for developing a workforce and has been a dismal failure. Institutional mechanisms can’t purchase education. It must be lived, and there is no substitute for experience. And it’s time to reevaluate the whole process for the sake of our future needs in an America First world. 

Rich Hoffman

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