On: Trade school, not 4-year college, is a better bet to solve the US income gap

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Yup, and many STEM jobs that once provided on the job training and needed a bachelors now require a PhD.

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Thus we get garbage doctorates. A doctorate was supposed to be the culmination of a scientific career.

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Not just garbage doctorates, even PhDs from top 10/20 schools in STEM fields that did reasonable interesting research go off to be process engineers or other non-scientist positions that likely don't need a PhD.