This follow-up isn't meant as a disagreement, just thinking 'out-loud': So what do we solve this problem then? While our economy does demand increased knowledg

This follow-up isn't meant as a disagreement, just thinking 'out-loud': So what do we solve this problem then? While our economy does demand increased knowledge for a good wage we also ALL know about the near pointless demand for increased credentials. We ALL know a certain chunk of top-echelon jobs are all but removed based on our university pedigree. This isn't even efficient for the economy, but that's a completely different post. We need to get more people more education, we need to quit demanding absurd amounts of credentials for everything from a barber to a glorified desk jockey, and we need to not cut off people from a prosperous life path because of their pedigree or poor decisions made in the first 22 years of their life. Online degrees were/are an attempt to solve this. So how do we fix them or what else do we do?