I totally understand this perspective, I really do, I just disagree with it because I think it would be better to punish those who are responsible for the syste

I totally understand this perspective, I really do, I just disagree with it because I think it would be better to punish those who are responsible for the system being borderline fraudulent as-is. Everyone in my generation - and I mean everyone, outside of those already privileged enough to afford to gamble in the opposite direction - thought that without going to college you wind up poor. They think this way because they were told this as an axiomatic truth by guidance counselors, their teachers, and perhaps especially University recruiters who of course had a financial incentive to perpetuate this perspective. The other problem is we did, in many ways, choose to restructure our entire economy around getting some degree to be used in the "new" economy, one that didn't have manufacturing jobs or other jobs that you could support a family on. These kids didn't choose this, elites and bureaucrats did, and as it turns out those degrees are still largely useless and certainly shouldn't require 4 years and $165k to get.