It's that "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" cultural attitude. Everyone loves the stories about how Zuckerberg and Bill Gates dropped out of college, but

It's that "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" cultural attitude. Everyone loves the stories about how Zuckerberg and Bill Gates dropped out of college, but conveniently forget that they dropped out of Harvard, not some random community college. I think it's also a similar effect to Australia and New Zealand's Tall Poppy Syndrome, or Scandinavia's Law of Jante, where people try and take down those better than them. People who didn't go to college want to tell people who did "it doesn't matter anyway, the richest man in the world is a dropout".