Quite enjoyed the article, and agree with most of it, except perhaps one point. The gentleman finally got ahead in life by getting an education and climbing the ranks. Its not that education is ever a bad thing, but I almost feel as if we have too many "educated people" and nothing for them to do. It seems that you need a degree just to work at a coffee shop these days as there are enough people looking for a job who have a useless degree so might as well make that a prerequisite. (It seems to be a supply/demand thing where we have an oversupply of college/university grads.)
Now I don't know enough about the merits of which degrees are useful and needed in the labor market and which aren't, but the point I'm trying to make is that I don't think higher education should be a necessity of "making it" in life. (By making it I mean the security of a job and food on the table and a roof over your head)
Every society needs general labor, be it a cashier in the store or the poor guy working hard for Amazon in the warehouse making next to nothing. My sister thinks that every person should go to university, but I fear that would just mean a whole bunch more of entitled people not willing to work in regular jobs for regular money. Its sad that a regular job these days cannot provide the necessities because I'd say a fairly big chunk of a functioning society revolves around someone doing the grunt work.
So from the point of view of the individual, of course you have to try and get ahead as the gentleman did in the article by going back to school, but from the point of view of a society, we need to make sure that the very necessary "regular" jobs are sufficient for raising a family and not living in fear being unable to provide.
