I had a thought one day about school. The program I am in lets in a cap of 75 students roughly a year.
Given that population growth is only going up still (albeit apparently slowing down in most industrialised first world countries) and not going down anytime soon, I often wonder about the nature of competition in crowded places.
If you've ever been on a bus that is packed like a can of sardines you get the feeling that civilization is best represented by the calm that people on those packed buses retain.
Eventually, the number 75 will have to be increased to accommodate more students coming and the facilities will have to be expanded somewhat to meet the demands of more students as well.
In our program, we are told, competition is fierce for jobs/careers upon graduation, which leads to another mathematical anomaly; is there potentially a tipping point in the future where the ratio of actual jobs/careers to graduates will see supply not meet demand?
In other words, will some people simply not get jobs/careers because population is to high relative to the amount of jobs/careers available and/or being created?
Yes, which is a part of why attendance is capped.
ReplyDeleteRRC doesn't want to saturate the market with all these grads.
Pretty much that's what's happening with graphic designers in the city right now - there's just so damn many of them.
Right now there is a good balance, and you'll find the CreComm Mafia all over Winnipeg.
I for one hope that CreComm doesn't increase how many students it accepts every year.
Yeah, it is good there is a cap in relation to the market size of Winnipeg. Although I think eventually they will have to increase the cap because of population growth at some point in the future.
ReplyDeleteMy train of thought with this post was in part inspired by an episode of the Simpsons that takes place in the future and the elementary school rooms are packed with kids in rows of desks stacked one on top of the other!
That bit of fiction may very well be fact in the future!