I will try to tackle this one. Imagine you finished college and 4 years of working at hypermegacorp as a sr. software developer or a product marketing manager.

I will try to tackle this one. Imagine you finished college and 4 years of working at hypermegacorp as a sr. software developer or a product marketing manager. Now around you, you see some of your superiors have MBA's (certainly not all), you are single, you have been working very hard, and you have saved up $100k. MBA = up the ladder + meeting other career driven, socially not awkward people + free time + you have the money. 4 years later, you're a "director of...", married, well-read, and went to europe, australia, japan, and hawaii twice. It's not for me, but that's my impression of an MBA.