For those of you that somehow missed the full story behind this, you can find it here: <a href="http://priceonomics.com/what-its-like-to-fail/" rel="nofollow">http://priceonomics.com/what-its-like-to-fail/</a><p>This is such a wonderful story that could warm even the coldest of hearts, and I really hope lots of people get behind this crowdtilt campaign :-)
There are a lot of high-profile themes here (age discrimination, the severe penalties that college tuitions inflict on high-IQ people having children, et al) but I'm going to focus on just one, because attacking all of them would take too much time.<p>This is proof that the model of undergraduate, liberal arts education has failed in this country.<p>What, you say?<p>The <i>whole point</i> of college is to equip people with the skills so that, regardless of market vacillations of trade-specific supply and demand, the person can always find work. Not to find "a job", but to provide someone with general-purpose skills so their careers are, at least, reasonably protected from the market ups-and-downs that afflict the trades.<p>The market doesn't buy it. People like him-- educated, capable-- end up unable to find appropriate work. Society has decided that higher education isn't valuable anymore. (It might be right; I'm not going to attack that, either.)<p>That's a market signal that this $40,000-per-year process that the US calls "education" has lost meaning and value.