/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>18148217
You guys are aware that there's an entire generation of zoomers, raised solely on laptops and tablets and phones, fresh out of high school preparing to get into college right?
You guys do realize that more than half of all American freshmen have no idea what they want to study in college, nor how to go about appropriately planning for college, right?
You guys do realize that by the time the majority of students going back to college with the likely $1,200 college startup they will accrue (assuming they're at least 18 and working or are working while in college and filing independently, which is still a fair sum) are going to drop out of college before their sophomore year? And that retention rate slightly decreases with each accumulative year?

I hope you guys aren't looking short term at how Americans (investors) are going to use this money, throwing knives in the dark at what industries you THINK you know about playing out in the world we live in today? You're looking at a huge surge of college students coming in in the next few years who have finger flicking, immediate access to all relevant information for not only registering for college; but, also, what it takes to succeed in college, earn scholarships (local, state, federal, private, international, and degree-specific), AND all the while, American education standards have dwindled even further and further to meet students' learning needs and degree-specific needs?

If you think you know about an industry that may require a college degree (or job-training) and you think that industry is truly going to blow up after the Kung Flu (assuming you're in it for just the money), then you guys should be setting aside a little bit extra for college-based investments like data transmission, food services, sports sponsors, whatever.
>friendly tip from a bad student about to graduate - publishers are one of the worst culprits of planned obsolescence, and paperback will lead the way - digital is too risky.
Peace.