The problem with your critique is that for all of the authority figures in these student's lives it was "push button, receive career". To sit on top of a high

The problem with your critique is that for all of the authority figures in these student's lives it was "push button, receive career". To sit on top of a high horse making (I assume just from the demographics of this site) in the top 1% of income fails to acknowledge the shear amount of luck that goes into success here. Even students that "worked non stop" are likely graduating with debt unless they had external assistance (either parents or scholarships or both) and even having done everything "correct" there's a high probability the only option after graduating is a job you hate in a career unrelated to your major (this is as applicable to S(T)EM as it is to humanities in my experience. The previous generation got everything for nothing then pulled up the ladder on the rest of us, don't act surprised when people are a bit salty.