I would have been so heavily punished financially for going to college vs taking that first tech industry job at 19 that I would have been an idiot for waiting

I would have been so heavily punished financially for going to college vs taking that first tech industry job at 19 that I would have been an idiot for waiting 4 more years and end up in the same place. If society wants more college graduates for reasons, we need to reward students with industry level wages scholarships. Of course this will could only ever happen in Europe, progressive latin America and so on.