> 1. If you are a young person and aspire to "middle class" employment, in 90% of cases you need a 4-year degree. The reason this is true is simply... A while

> 1. If you are a young person and aspire to "middle class" employment, in 90% of cases you need a 4-year degree. The reason this is true is simply... A while back, someone on HN replied to a comment about college degrees being almost de rigueur with a link to a lawsuit I never heard of. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Company As it turns out, this is the real reason why 4-year degrees have the power that they do in the world of white-collar employment. And that is the beauty of HN, you can learn the facts when sometimes most people just do conjecture