So what you’re quite literally saying is that a college degree is proof that you learned the course material well enough to pass exams and that you were reliabl

So what you’re quite literally saying is that a college degree is proof that you learned the course material well enough to pass exams and that you were reliable enough to follow through with completing a large project, the large project being a significant load of college attendance, coursework, hands-on labs, group projects, and exams. But then in the previous breath you said it’s a scam? What makes it a scam? You just said yourself that it is bonafide proof of a base ability to follow through and proof of some non-zero level of knowledge absorption. If you didn’t go to school you’d just be telling your prospective employer “hey don’t worry I already know C++” and they’d have to find some way of verifying that skill set on their own. Meanwhile, your competition who went to school can say “I got a 4.0 in all my fundamental accredited coursework and I was the front end designer for my group capstone project with 3 other students where we built a dog walking gig app, here’s how we worked together to make decisions and resolve issues…” If the only thing that makes it a scam is the price…that’s a weak argument. And we have the statistics to show us that college degree holders still out-earn high school graduates greatly. When we see the wealthy stop sending their kids to Wharton and Harvard then you know it’s a scam.