Interesting points. However, you seem to be assuming that people without degrees disappear into some kind of a time warp while everyone else is at university.

Interesting points. However, you seem to be assuming that people without degrees disappear into some kind of a time warp while everyone else is at university. Team work, communication, planning and organisation skills can be picked up in real life environments too, if anything in a better fashion. When you enter employment at a young age, your employer and your colleagues are more willing to show you the ropes and give you time to learn on the job, considering you usually start at a low position. Then you proceed to learn real world experience for a number of years, depending on how quickly you dropped out of education, and how quickly you landed a job. I had been working as a developer for 5 years by the time my friends of the same age finished their degrees. Put that into perspective and compare to people fresh out of university. I'm not saying people with a degree have wasted their time, or that it wasn't the right thing to do. Just give those of us who chose a different path some credit too. As far as my options go, I'm now self employed and loving it.