Education as a prestige/status signaler is zero sum. If everybody had a Harvard degree, then it would lose its value. Which is why they’re so adamant about no

Education as a prestige/status signaler is zero sum. If everybody had a Harvard degree, then it would lose its value. Which is why they’re so adamant about not counting online degrees earned through EDX as “real degrees” because it would devalue their status signaling education. I would argue we already have high quality education access. Go on YouTube, coursera or any other platform and you can find incredible resources. What we don’t have a lot of is high paying/high status jobs, and as a result we’re put through a brutal tournament model, where one of the games consists of getting into a high-status college.