Thread by @MarvinGakunyi

Educated to fail

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When you are taught a skill that which you cannot be gainfully employed then you are set up to fail. In a pastoralist village the community had educational
systems to ensure all young people were gainfully employed when they grew up.

They would be trained to be good shepherds. In a fishing village the community had educational systems to ensure all young people were gainfully employed when they grew up. They would be trained to be good fishermen.

In a hunting village the community had educational systems to ensure all young people were gainfully employed when they grew up. They would be trained to
be good hunters. Secondly there was nothing like poorly paid young people.

In these societies everybody had good living means of income which were not necessarily valued in monetary terms. Students who have been to school colleges and universities and wish to enter the work force have done nothing wrong.

They are certainly not lazy. They were simply given one path, one option in life: go to school, get a degree, and
then you can get a job. The problem is in the capitalistic structure of our economies and in the way our economic model incentivizes people.

The economy is largely controlled by profit making companies. They have money and jobs. They decide whether or not to hire you. If these companies don’t need your skills, then you are out of luck.

We are cycled through this education system with not much option and then are at the whim of profit-seeking companies to make a living. These are the same companies who want to maximize efficiency and won’t blink twice to lay-off employees or restructure when ‘things aren’t going

well.’ But it’s not the fault of the companies. They are simply operating in a world where maximizing profit is the incentive. Our educational system has taught us to fail as the following statistics prove.

Half of university graduates are no
better off than those who do not go to university, a study has found. Over 40% of UK graduates fail to land grad-level jobs after University. The study found that 26% of all university graduates in the UK regret the time and money they spent on

their university education – equating to 5.6 million people across the country. Many graduates are desperate to find jobs and therefore remain unemployed. With labor markets in many African countries swamped due to a baby boom,
countries in the region will continue to face

the acute challenge of massive youth unemployment. Even for countries that do foster more robust private sectors, they may not be able to mitigate the economic hardship when it hits their citizens, due to the uncontrollable nature of the free market who treat human

beings as human resource process costs and when companies make losses they lay off many workers as part of a cost cutting excercise. African economies have failed to keep pace with the rate of population growth for a
variety of reasons.

Some countries have experienced war, conflict and sanctions, but even in places that have not suffered such degradations, youth unemployment has risen inexorably. Hampering the youth quest for jobs are a number of factors, including weak private sectors,mismatched skills and

a
region wide overreliance on the public sector. . Moreover, the countries also suffer from underemployment, as a robust education sector has produced many skilled graduates, but there are few jobs to match their skill sets. Even in developed countries like the UK

there is a mismatch between what people learnt in the university and available jobs in the market . When presented with a list of the country’s most sought after roles in the tech industry – including data scientist, social media manager, app developer and cyber security

specialist – 48% of graduates in UK said they do not know what these jobs entail or how they would secure one. Over six million graduates (28%) deem their degree courses outdated in relation to the present-day job market, while 45% –9.7 million graduates –say internships and work

placements have been more valuable to them than degrees in their professional life. Over 35% of university graduates have had to pay to do further qualifications to get the skills they need to pursue their desired job. Instead some countries are forced to rely on the low-wage,

low-skilled tourist sector for much of national employment The situation is also made worse by corruption that siphons large percentage of national wealth that could be productively employed. Transparency International data shows 85% of humans live under a

corrupt government.Those with less power are particularly disadvantaged in corrupt systems, which typically reinforce discrimination and income inequalities. Corruption also compounds political exclusion: if votes can be bought, there is little incentive to change the system

that sustains poverty for the masses and enriches the kleptocrats. This is the fallacy of democracy. Corruption is both a cause of poverty, and a barrier to overcoming it. It is one of the most serious obstacles to reducing poverty. Corruption denies poor people the basic means

of survival, forcing them to spend more of their income
on bribes.Even bribes to get jobs. As the jobless suffer through year after year of poor work prospects, they will question the educational, economic and political systems that have endlessly promised solutions yet failed

to deliver an acceptable standard of living. Inevitably, a lack of solutions will foment protests and, potentially in turn, insurrection. With time running out for a solution to tackle unemployment, revolution might become the youth's
more.

biggest employer in the not-too-distant future. And for those who go for the alternative of starting a business the following statistics prove many fail. Data on new small businesses shows that 30% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open, 50% during the

first five years and 66% during the first 10 and only 25% make it to 15 years or more.

By Odima Rogers ( cimco-ltd.com).