It's the same problem in EU as well. But it's a lot more complicated than "everybody wants to go to college". That's just an effect of economic and social cause

It's the same problem in EU as well. But it's a lot more complicated than "everybody wants to go to college". That's just an effect of economic and social causes. Money being thrown in ridiculous amounts in the tech bubble makes the choice seem like a no-brainer. Media aggressively pushes the narrative that digital is the future and we'll all eat bits and put a roof over our head with bytes in the near future. People believe AI and robots taking over physical jobs is just around the corner. And the financial digital bureaucrats who do the sharing take the lions share for themselves so of course everybody wants to join that league. Unless governments intervene to stop this sick trends the west will end up even more unable to provide its basic physical needs - food, shelter, energy, clothes, etc. But the governments are made up of bureaucrats who live in a bubble isolated from physical trades which they think are to be performed exclusively by low class slave-like individuals. And it works for a while, first with local poor classes, then with immigrants, but it crashes at some point, or at least it did historically. Could last centuries, decades or years.