Not having a degree isn’t a problem. Even committing immigration crimes isn’t a problem. Making your imaginary degree your whole personality, on the other hand

Not having a degree isn’t a problem. Even committing immigration crimes isn’t a problem. Making your imaginary degree your whole personality, on the other hand, might lead to the kind of self-delusion that would prevent one from accurately judging one’s own competence. And then one might end up blowing $44 billion destroying a company you thought was simple because you don’t understand web-scale software, the basics of how to manage a business or how laws work. Elon Musk has the opposite of imposter’s syndrome, and a whole lot of people have just lost their jobs because of it.