Regardless of any opinions on either side, I don't understand why we have made degree a social prestige? Someone in the comments said degree values will degrade

Regardless of any opinions on either side, I don't understand why we have made degree a social prestige? Someone in the comments said degree values will degrade and they are probably right as it happened with lower education as more and more people got in. Maybe there are lack of jobs or companies are exploiting people by making them grind more in an artificial constraint environment or some people are hogging off the resources and causing major inequality in pay gaps? I have no doubt education is valuable and so is experience but why does that have to compress or translate into a paper? Should we really be running on an old feudal model of producing workers in 2020? I have a lot of questions. I dropped out of school recently due to the toxic culture degrading my health to the point I am severely antisocial and definitely depressed enough for no reason. The competitive grind is worse in countries with overpopulation and the quality is just outrageous. I just wanted to work on something cool, become a surgeon but that route was sealed at 10. No money, no family prospects, grinding is too difficult and being a drug addict and die young seems a better option if you had a non functional childhood due to the whole burden later on. I thought life would improve with vast improvements in productivity and industrial revolution but what we got in the end seems to be mostly cosmetic for the past 20 years. Yes, having the ability to order food or communicate is nice but that was doable before too. Taxi on demand? Well, we had numbers before (even though I was born in 00s), my dad has stories of it. Fancy animated avatar on social platforms seems cosmetic. What else really changed in life quality?