The article hits it right on the nose about our culture&#x27;s fetishization of education and credentials. My brother is a trader at a bank. Going to grad school would cost a ton of money between tuition and opportunity costs, while doing nothing to advance his career, yet my parents still lament that he has &quot;only a bachelors degree.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t know what can be done. As jobs continue to get automated away, the emphasis on education will only become more extreme. To listen to some Presidential candidates talk everyone should have a PhD in underwater basket weaving, paid for by the government. It&#x27;s insane.