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Is university still worth it?

Debt and three years against earnings, access and everything a degree signals that is not a skill.

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ForVerdyct editorial

The part that survives automation is the part universities are for: reading something long, arguing in writing, and being wrong in public without falling apart. Every bootcamp teaches a stack with a four-year half-life, and then the stack moves.

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ForVerdyct editorial

The graduate premium is smaller than it was and still large. Lifetime earnings gaps remain substantial in both the US and Poland, and the unemployment gap widens during downturns - which is the moment it matters. 'Worth it' has to be measured against the actual alternative, and for most people that is not a well-paid trade, it is an entry-level job with no ladder attached.

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