The HN reality distortion field is all kids will use their Stanford CS degree to work in tech for huge salaries. The reality is at least half of kids don't use

The HN reality distortion field is all kids will use their Stanford CS degree to work in tech for huge salaries. The reality is at least half of kids don't use their degree anyway. My waitress at the local restaurant isn't any better at waitressing because she has small mortgage sized student debt; in a hypothetical world where she couldn't get that education degree paid for, she'd merely be a happier less stressed waitress, which probably would result in better life for everyone. The concept of everyone should go to college is extremely Boomer; they're dying off and their beliefs are dying off with them. Likewise just wait until "Real estate only goes up!" dies out. Or watching TV pro sports being taken seriously as a hobby. Then you factor in demographic replacement; if most young kids are not native, they will not have legacy native beliefs. It doesn't matter what white hippies held dear in 1970, if a significant fraction of the kids are not legacy demographic. Demographic elimination means cultural elimination and nothing says "white boomer" quite like "Everybody gotta go to college"