I'm a bit conflicted on this. It seems to me that higher education is completely broken in the US. Every white collar job requires it, not because you'll learn

I'm a bit conflicted on this. It seems to me that higher education is completely broken in the US. Every white collar job requires it, not because you'll learn skills that are needed for the job, but because they've found college grads are more likely to be competent. Apprenticeships are the most obvious solution to the "lemon worker" problem, since companies can decide after the training is done whether they want to keep them. But if the company is losing money during the training they'll just hire the educated prospect unless there's some way to get that money back. Obviously forcing established employees to pay for unneeded training is just taking advantage of the power employers have in the relationship, but I can see where training that workers pay for can be useful.