Originally Posted by woj

it's hard to argue against education, it seems like a good idea...

but it also seems that training millions of webmasters/designers/programmers/photographers, etc might not be so great? Fast forward 5 years from now, and we all will be competing with millions of workers who just got out of community college, willing to work for dirt cheap... some will even have entrepreneurial drive so they will start websites, businesses, etc that will compete with us... and on top of that we paid to train them...

we all acquired valuable skills through hard work, many of us paid $$ to acquire those skills, and now everyone and their dog will have the same skills and will be competing with us...

it might be good for the economy overall, but on a personal level I see very little benefit and mostly downsides...