Sep 3, 2026 · 53 min · 13 segments
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There's some big moves going on in China with the removal of degree requirements.
I think that this is really going to give people to a full picture of how this is not just a uniquely US problem.
There's too much paper, and there's too many people buying it, and there's not enough jobs that require it in order to make it worth it.
And I want to give parents especially this picture because I want them to see that this is not just us.
Sending more people to buy paper than there are jobs that require that paper is never going to work.
And other countries are suffering from the consequences of this too, especially the UK is a few years ahead of us.
And they're now flailing around trying to figure out their apprenticeship programs.
But they're also suffering from something that we're going to talk about, which is the government.
So the government in the UK has been trying to figure out the apprenticeship thing.
And when the government tries to do this with small business, the cost of compliance is too high.
So the only answer to this is going to be private businesses and going back to an old school model of parents helping their kids find apprenticeships early that are not government sponsored because they're too hard for small businesses to actually be able to fulfill the requirements for.
But the first thing I want to talk about was the fact that China has revoked or suspended 20%.
People are not understanding the speed at which this is moving because AI itself is the reason why so many of these degree programs are now null.
There's some big moves going on in China with the removal of degree requirements.
I think that this is really going to give people to a full picture of how this is not just a uniquely US problem.
There's too much paper, and there's too many people buying it, and there's not enough jobs that require it in order to make it worth it.
And I want to give parents especially this picture because I want them to see that this is not just us.
Sending more people to buy paper than there are jobs that require that paper is never going to work.
And other countries are suffering from the consequences of this too, especially the UK is a few years ahead of us.
And they're now flailing around trying to figure out their apprenticeship programs.
But they're also suffering from something that we're going to talk about, which is the government.
So the government in the UK has been trying to figure out the apprenticeship thing.
And when the government tries to do this with small business, the cost of compliance is too high.
So the only answer to this is going to be private businesses and going back to an old school model of parents helping their kids find apprenticeships early that are not government sponsored because they're too hard for small businesses to actually be able to fulfill the requirements for.
But the first thing I want to talk about was the fact that China has revoked or suspended 20%.
People are not understanding the speed at which this is moving because AI itself is the reason why so many of these degree programs are now null.
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