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Every year about this time I hear much the same question floating around. “Why do I need to go to college?” It’s usually followed by something like “my friend is working at Walmart for $12\/hr.” If that Walmart is in Cook County, it is now $15\/hr thanks to new laws<\/a>. Yes, I’ve written about the minimum wage before<\/a>. I’ve even written about Voodoo Economics<\/a>. There is even an essay in my new book<\/a> titled The More You Are Paid the Less You Are Worth<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American dream means you start at a minimum wage job with a path up<\/strong> so you can have the house, dog, white picket fence, and 2.3 kids. For years, decades really, that meant a boy could graduate from high school and the following week start at a factory or trade job. Many of these jobs were unionized which meant they provided both a path up and healthcare. (Wages typically increased with seniority in a union. Senior members got first choice of jobs and could even end up working directly for the union.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really hope you can see the featured image of this post and that you are viewing this on a platform that will let you zoom in. I took the picture with my stick phone while out for a walk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dude painting windmill blade<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

You go to college so you don’t end up with that job<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In case you can’t, that black speck at the end of the windmill blade is a dude hanging by one rope painting the blade. The rope ran up to some kind of block and tackle thing and the then came back down to anchor to a vehicle on the ground. There he was hanging by one rope praying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n