This is only true if you accept what schools say they are and ignore how education functions in modern society. Yes, some jobs require a degree. Which ones? All

This is only true if you accept what schools say they are and ignore how education functions in modern society. Yes, some jobs require a degree. Which ones? All of the most high paying jobs. If that weren’t the case, if degrees actually weren’t about financial return, schools would find it impossible to command the huge tuitions that they do. If the present-day purpose of bachelor’s degrees had anything to do with teaching you wouldn’t see 40% of millennials getting college degrees. Perhaps in some semantic sense college is not “for” getting a job but only in the same sense that it’s not “for” building a social network for example. And that doesn’t change the fact that for the vast majority of people a positive financial return is exactly their calculation.