The dislike of academia - specifically of higher education post B.S - partly stems from the archaic admission process that strictly limit the opportunity for th

The dislike of academia - specifically of higher education post B.S - partly stems from the archaic admission process that strictly limit the opportunity for the majority of people to participate in it. You have to be doing the correct things no later than, let's say your junior year in college to be able to have a chance for a PhD at a top tier research university (less than top tier PhD and you hit the massive road block for tenure after your PhD, so it's almost the same thing). There are people did the correct things early in their life. The majority of us make mistakes. How would even a mid-late 20s (young, by any account) good software engineer get through the gatekeepers and get his PhD? There was even a thread on HN a few days ago asking about the exact question. To put it another way, it's not that we don't want the training. We don't have the option to do so (at least in the traditional way).