the logic behind programming or learning one language that will quickly be supplanted by another?

Learning new languages is easy, once you understand the logic to the process.

Colleges might be a little too theory-based and not enough hands-on, and Heaven help college kids who are being cheated by these places, and few of them are union-based so that usual avenue can't really be brought up as an excuse...

And if colleges are using grade inflation, teaching less and saving the needed stuff for higher degrees, just so everyone can be in debt $200k for a $10/hr job, you can bet the farm that the system is horrendously broken. Indeed, there should be class actions suits with justice and refunds for any college student who has been toyed around with, especially false promises and being told the US has a lack of x type employees and that we need more...

But there is less incentive to work if they pay isn't there.

I know - let's bring back whips, chains, and get nets set up around the big dorms where workers live. That'll bring back freedom and prosperity! At least for the owners... who said we the workers have freedoms or rights?