This is good. I think the commoditization of college had profound negative effects on society. Historic trust in the academic system was abused in order to, at

This is good. I think the commoditization of college had profound negative effects on society. Historic trust in the academic system was abused in order to, at best, sell degrees to people who were unqualified for them, and at worst, to indoctrinate two generations of children (anything outside of STEM is heavily politically slanted - it's the long march through the institutions that the infamous Weather Underground spoke of). If intelligence (and general ability) is truly normally distributed then you cannot award degrees to the majority of the population without lowering historic standards.