are or aren't related.

Who here believes that a person with a college degree is more likely to not live in poverty?

I have older 'wiser' people here telling me that having a college degree(s) pretty much won't make a difference in persons lifestyle and/or the nations poverty.

12/19/2007 3:18:14 PM

they're idiots

12/19/2007 3:18:49 PM

college is overrated, but its like a boob job

its not gonna guarantee you a better life, but it will definitely help

[Edited on December 19, 2007 at 3:21 PM. Reason : x]

12/19/2007 3:20:50 PM

^

12/19/2007 3:21:15 PM

Define "poverty." People often confuse "poverty" and "poor."

I'm poor compared to Donald Trump, but I don't live in poverty. And if you define poverty by, say, US government standards, very few college graduates would be classified in that category.

[Edited on December 19, 2007 at 3:25 PM. Reason : .]

12/19/2007 3:22:36 PM

^^

i work with plenty of folk who dont have college degree.

i mean, maybe in the grand scheme of things yeah, you will find that more people on poverty probably dont have a college degree. but it doesnt prove anything.

12/19/2007 3:23:07 PM

kanye west dropped out of college

12/19/2007 3:23:20 PM

poverty is a relative term. i live in povert compared to the trump

but half you guys on this board probably live in poverty compared to me


i'm just trying to say to these people that a college education can help a human being out if they want to have an increase in substance and earnings

12/19/2007 3:25:07 PM

BILL GATES DROPPED OUT OF COLLEGE

12/19/2007 3:26:11 PM

poverty's in the eye of the beholder

12/19/2007 3:27:35 PM

^^people who have gone to college are more likely to realize that that is an insignificant sample size

[Edited on December 19, 2007 at 3:27 PM. Reason : cxas]

12/19/2007 3:27:40 PM

thats what these older and 'wiser' folks are saying, but..

I'm like: there is 1 Bill Gates for every 200 million college dropouts

12/19/2007 3:29:38 PM

precisely.

12/19/2007 3:31:56 PM

Since you people want to get all philosophical about poverty being relative why don't we just cut out that b.s. and go with the US poverty line?

Quote :

"The poverty threshold is adjusted each year. In 2006, in the United States of America, the poverty threshold for a single person under 65 was US$10,488; the threshold for a family group of four, including two children, was US$20,444."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_line

12/19/2007 3:32:17 PM

^x7 Then you mean "poor," not "poverty." Poverty is and should be a quantitative standard.

^ I already suggested as much:

Quote :

"And if you define poverty by, say, US government standards, very few college graduates would be classified in that category."

[Edited on December 19, 2007 at 3:34 PM. Reason : .]

12/19/2007 3:32:41 PM

get back into your HOLE you fucking worm

12/19/2007 3:33:11 PM

undeniably correlated

but every correlation has outliers

12/19/2007 3:33:20 PM

depends on your definition of poverty

Bitches (non gender associated people who do work for others) will get paid more with a degree.
Bosses- it doesn't really matter cause you own your own binness.


i'd say if your goal is to be a boss and to own some sort of business then the only thing that can hold you back is you,i.e. bad spending habits or poor business ideas.

12/19/2007 3:34:56 PM

usually if you have a degree you're not so fucking lazy that you won't have at least a halfway decent job

12/19/2007 3:36:28 PM