I highly doubt it will collapse any time soon. People underestimate the level of inertia that exists in institutions even after it's clear they should collapse,

I highly doubt it will collapse any time soon. People underestimate the level of inertia that exists in institutions even after it's clear they should collapse, even though I'm not certain of colleges having gotten to this point, as they serve many roles that are not simply about learning, such as: - job training (like it or not, college grads are seen more favorably than non-grads, even in software engineering) - socialization for young adults (I know many people who went to college in large part to make friends, and learning as a reason for going was treated as a smaller reason) - research, etc Colleges will remain here and for the foreseeable future, they are still very useful to many people. Altman is now at Open AI but I'm sure being YC's president for a while, Sam understands that YC has a vested interest in disrupting colleges, through investments like Lambda School (sorry, Bloom Tech).