It is all about supply and demand, historically most people didn’t go to college and anyone who wanted a decent life went into trades. The massive number of people who were interested in doing these trades drove down wages.
But everything has changed, now nearly everyone wants to go to college and very few want to work trade type jobs. This has caused a shortage and thus driven up wages for those type jobs.
Yes.
There is a set that you are nothing unless you “go to college”.
Half do not even get their degrees and most degrees are worthless.
It leads to current situation of mass of left leaning, unemployed or underemployed, college educated, so called “elites”. They think, as educated, they deserve lots of money and recognition, but they are mostly useless, or even counterproductive.
Breeding ground for Antifa, BLM, equity movements.
We should really advertise, that getting good trade and being good at it is worth a lot more more that most degrees!