Nope, you're living in a bubble. Not everyone went to a "good" school. This is one of the things that cracks me up about the HN community. It seems like everyon

Nope, you're living in a bubble. Not everyone went to a "good" school. This is one of the things that cracks me up about the HN community. It seems like everyone went to Stanford or MIT and the dumb kids went to CMU. The vast, vast majority of people do not go to prestigious schools (if they did, those schools would no longer be prestigious, in some sense). Additionally, these same people often lack social connections that, regardless of what people claim, are often key to getting into a good career track. The whole "useful degree" argument also fails to hold water. Not everyone has the predisposition or personality to be an engineer. Those people have to do something. Most of the things they are able to do pay very little. So for these people, the chance to make $40k per year for a few years might be quite appealing. So yes, if you just graduated from MIT with a technical degree and/or your parents are reasonably well-connected, then you are probably doing OK. Everyone else is struggling. Stop pretending this isn't the case, entitlement isn't an attractive personality trait.