Your ire is focused on the symptom not the cure. Take a look at india and china, they have this exact same problem, and it's a result of immense demand for STE

Your ire is focused on the symptom not the cure. Take a look at india and china, they have this exact same problem, and it's a result of immense demand for STEM engineers, no matter what. Marketing employees will have gone through a STEM education on a regular basis. The way it unfolds is this - 1) If you aren't a degree holder, you aren't employable, there's millions of degree holders fighting for a job 2) you are a degree holder? Well there's 1000s fighting for your position, are you a hard degree or soft degree? 3) HArd STEM? What's your pedigree? In short - allowing the system to take root (degree as pre requisite for jobs), sets of a vicious cycle. This cycle only begins when you have a large group of unemployable humans. To compete and be employed they increasingly turn to signaling. Eventually the old signal (actually interested In learning) gets overwhelmed with people who just want a job. it's a jobs problem not an education problem.