That's a fair enough point. You simply keep raising the bar for how much education people need. But I don't think that's a problem of job seeking or education,

That's a fair enough point. You simply keep raising the bar for how much education people need. But I don't think that's a problem of job seeking or education, but of the economy in general. There are simply fewer things for people to do. I'm no Marxist, but it does seem glaringly obvious to me that since the industrial revolution we have made more things with machines, requiring fewer people. For a while increased consumerism meant we could re-purpose people into making new stuff, and when that was automated we could shuffle them into service jobs, but there's a cap on that. Increasingly, only the most qualified people will be able to do the fewer and fewer things there are to do. That's why college is so important. There's no chance without it. But I do think the supply can be solved. I think "everyone gets loans" oversimplify the issue because most institutions are state run, there isn't really much competition in the free-market sense of the word. Because the government controls the bulk of higher education in the US, we are in a better position to solve this problem than any other discussed. Part of it is to start supporting it again. Return grant programs and create real financial aid so people who need money can get it and people who don't aren't forced to take it.