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College has been sold as a necessity. It is not a necessity. There are many other routes to financial security.
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I agree. Particularly when a liberal arts education is now a miseducation and so worse than valueless.

We have to educate ourselves anyway. Who had to read the Federalist Papers in college? Not me . . . I think I read 2 in four years. I was a political science and an economics major.

Businesses should just ask for an IQ test or SAT score, and personal references to get an idea of intelligence and work ethic of a new hire rather than this $200,000 toilet paper diploma game that they play now, where the name of the University substitutes for what they really want to know anyway, which is how smart is the prospect and how hard do they work? It’s bogus.

If someone wants to be a hired bureaucrat in Federal or State Civil Service (not necessary to sell one's soul), many of the positions require various work experience or college education. Many positions don't require college, but it is much quicker to get the foot in the door with college credentials.

But why wait?

If a private sector job is okay, then some certification is the ticket. There are a lot of possible certificates that don't require college and college is a useless and expensive detour for most of those.