[AnotherUnixGeek]

President Trump signed an executive order making federal hiring "merit-based," which means skills and competency for a job will take precedence over a college degree for many types of jobs.

100% positive development, I wish he'd issued this EO in the first day of his presidency.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

In this case Trump is ahead of private companies. Lately companies have not just been requiring degrees for certain positions, but in some cases they will only actively hire from a list of "top" colleges and universities.

No wonder the professors, lawyers, politicians, and CEOs are only working from the same playbook: they all graduated from the same 10-20 universities.