So you agree that college has nothing to do with education or job preparation, but rather some abstract general measure of character. There are other ways to f

So you agree that college has nothing to do with education or job preparation, but rather some abstract general measure of character. There are other ways to filter for people with these traits. Being smart in general (or being conscientious enough to study hard for the knowledge-based SATs) highly correlates to low time preference, so it may be redundant to do any other tests. There are other ways to teach a job skill without spending 4 years to do it or making a competition out of getting access to learning. In the last century before the college boom, big employers would expect to have to train new employees. Forcing young people to incur significant unforgivable debt to the education-industrial complex just to prove they have some brain configuration seems wasteful and cruel.