> 1) As colleges degenerate from being an intellectual addition, to a pre requisite for jobs well paying or not At least in the Anglosphere, elite colleges wer

> 1) As colleges degenerate from being an intellectual addition, to a pre requisite for jobs well paying or not At least in the Anglosphere, elite colleges were elite finishing schools before they were tickets to middle class elite jobs. I'm not sure that they are degenerating in the way that you imply. It's also not clear to me that academic pursuits are somehow better than commercial pursuits. They're certainly not better for society. > Very few people actually are interested in doing math or math derived work all the time, but if they don't society and the jobs market will be unmerciful. I feel like I know more people who are interested in doing math, but are not doing math because the job market is not kind to those who do math. Indeed I am one of those people. I do agree that I took a somewhat cynical approach.