{"id":286637,"date":"2025-11-12T04:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/286637\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T04:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:24:09","slug":"dave-ramsey-tells-gen-z-to-push-back-against-the-establishment-by-picking-up-a-trade-instead-of-an-overpriced-and-leveraged-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/286637\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Ramsey Tells Gen Z To Push Back Against The Establishment By Picking Up A Trade Instead Of An ‘Overpriced And Leveraged’ Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Personal finance expert Dave Ramsey and TV host and advocate for skilled labor Mike Rowe are calling out the way traditional education has been propped up at the expense of skilled trades. In a wide-ranging conversation<\/a> last year, the two urged Gen Z to rethink what success really looks like.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not saying four-year degrees are a bad thing,\u201d Ramsey said. \u201cWe’re not saying ignorance is a bad thing. We’re not saying education as a concept is a bad thing. But when it’s overpriced and leveraged and people are studying things that are not useful, it is not lifting society.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Ramsey believes young people are starting to see the truth. \u201cIf you want to stick it to the man\u2026 rebel against the formers, the best way to do that is to go into trades,\u201d he said. He added that the future belongs to people who are both skilled and curious.<\/p>\n

\u201cA balanced workforce is like a balanced human,\u201d Rowe said. \u201cOur country needs more welders who can have an interesting conversation about Nietzsche. And we need more philosophers who can run an even bead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rowe shared a moment from his own high school days that stuck with him. A guidance counselor praised his test scores and encouraged him to pick a university. But when Rowe said he wanted to attend a local community college instead, the counselor showed him a poster to make his point.<\/p>\n

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The poster was split in half. On one side, a fresh college graduate in a cap and gown stood proudly with a bright future behind him. On the other, a tired tradesman<\/a> slumped in a dark setting, holding a wrench. Underneath was the slogan: \u201cWork smart, not hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat guy on the right side of the poster looked an awful lot like my grandfather,\u201d Rowe said. \u201cHe built the house I was born in, without a blueprint. My hero. And here he was being essentially epitomized by a loser.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rowe said the education system didn’t just elevate college; it did so by putting the trades down. \u201cWe weren\u2019t content to make the case [for college] on its merits,\u201d he said. \u201cWe had to turn the trades, community college, apprenticeships\u2014we had to relegate those things into cautionary tales.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rowe pointed to the numbers: \u201cWe\u2019re lending money we don\u2019t have to kids who are never going to be able to pay it back to train them for jobs that don\u2019t exist anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Personal finance expert Dave Ramsey and TV host and advocate for skilled labor Mike Rowe are calling out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,155,101,120465,147,150972,73277],"class_list":{"0":"post-286637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dave-ramsey","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-mike-rowe","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-skilled-labor","14":"tag-skilled-trades"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}