TOLD-YA-SO! The highly beneficial Income-side of obtaining a Post-secondary Education. From here: NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) Annual Earnings by Educational Attainment - 2018/2019 Median annual earnings for 25- to 34-year-olds: Total - $45,700 / $46,700 Who completed less than high school $28,4000 / $29,300 Who completed high school as highest level $35,500 / $35,000 Who completed some college, but did not attain a degree $37,00 / $39,700 Who attained an associate's degree $40,700 / $40,000 Who attained a bachelor's or higher degree $59,000 / $59,700 Who attained a bachelor's degree $55,700 / $55,700 Who attained a master's or higher degree $66,200 / $70,000 MY COMMENT So the above shows what we all kinda-sorta knew. The higher one gets in terms of PostSecondary education, the more they earn. And I call that goodness. Unfortunately the above does not give the "amounts" - that is, the percentage of high-school graduating students who pursue and graduate with a postsecondary degree ... PS: But are they any more "happier" than those who do not do so well education-wise? I doubt sincerely the NCES attempts to measure "happiness".
Let's remember there are two potential logical fallacies here. Correlation does not necessarily imply causation - it could be that certain type of people are both more likely to get an education and earn more income, rather than education being the cause of higher income; or it could very well be that offspring with genetics that will be more likely to lead them to earn higher incomes will have parents who could afford provide education to their children. Fallacy of composition - although giving one person more education might result in a higher income for the individual, the same will not necessarily be true for the group if you do that for an entire society. This could be true for example if employers were simply allocating out the higher paying jobs to the applicants with the highest educational credentials, rather than that education actually leading to more high paying jobs in the economy.
The link between education and income-level is well proven; And smoking pot does NOT change our regard as to the consequences in terms Wealth Sharing in America! Wealth Accumulation has gone too, too far! And over the past 30-years what we have done is "elect" the richer-class to populate both houses of Congress ... !
Hmm, I think you were totally missing the point of my post. (Unless I am misunderstanding the point of your post?)
Happens all the time. It's the medium of exchange that's to blame. Moving right along. At least nobody here in France has pulled out a gun and started shooting at me because they didn't like what I said! Uncle Sam has gone crazy with guns, guns, guns ...
I've noticed, throughout the many different threads you've posted in this forum, you seem to have a difficult time staying on one topic.
