You see, this is what I was talking about earlier - within a couple of decades we've gone from a position where employers EXPECTED to have to train young people via on-the-job experience or college courses (paid for by the employer), to a position where young people are EXPECTED to pay for their JOBS.

Expanding the principle slightly its probably not as stupid as it sounds as hundreds of thousands of 18 year olds will this year embark on three year university courses that will cost them a minimum of £9000 per year in the hope that at some point in the far distant future they will recoup that money (which most will have to borrow at an interest) through better employment, the evidence for which remains to be seen.