It's also a familiar song sung by employers in the corporate world.
"You have to have a degree to qualify." It usually doesn't matter what the degree is in, just the fact that you took the time, effort, and expense to make it through college demonstrates at least a degree of motivation to an employer who is sorting through 1,000 resumes for 1 job opening.
There are of course exceptions, but few will get hired into junior executive positions in major corporations without a sheepskin.
Bingo. You nailed it.
Employers are HUGELY responsible, as they’ve consumed the Kool-Aid and now regard a Bachelors Degree as the minimum price of entry.
They also hire slobbering morons and promote them to high-paying senior positions based on the fact that they hold a degree from some elite college. I have seen it happen too many times.
“There are of course exceptions, but few will get hired into junior executive positions in major corporations without a sheepskin. “
And then sit on your ass in a fricken cubicle in front of a computer doing shit you could care less about along with 100 other schlubs. Do they even give smoke breaks anymore?