> So you have admirable cultural thing of valuing education and it comes with negative side effect where people try to get it even when they don't have the abil

> So you have admirable cultural thing of valuing education and it comes with negative side effect where people try to get it even when they don't have the ability. Good observation. It's not limited to Asia. There are blue collar jobs available, as Mike Rowe tells us. You can make a decent living as a plumber. But people don't want to deal with actual shit. They'd rather deal with the metaphorical variety =) Anyway, student debt is going through the roof in the US. We may have invented the problem.