I agree with you completely. I'm not trying to say that community college has no value. I'm just saying that the causal relationship isn't clear. Certainly you

I agree with you completely. I'm not trying to say that community college has no value. I'm just saying that the causal relationship isn't clear. Certainly you shouldn't discount your education's affect on your earning power. The problem is that there's no counterfactual world in which we can observe a version of you who didn't go to community college, so we really don't quite know exactly what it was worth.