>'Seems pretty fair, at a high level.' I would agree. What the experience above and others since evidenced to me is that quite a few people look at a degree a

>'Seems pretty fair, at a high level.' I would agree. What the experience above and others since evidenced to me is that quite a few people look at a degree as ticket - admission to a higher class. They see the people who manage to earn above their apparent class as frauds - stowaways who don't belong. People who are somehow gaming the system - stealing what degree holders are entitled to. I'm not sure what to make of it exactly. I'd guess it's an amalgamation of crushing student loan debt, the misleading marketing of college as a guarantee of prosperity and perhaps a socially acceptable facade for old-fashioned class/race discrimination.