&gt;we have GOT to stop acting like a college degree is the be-all-end-all. We cannot keep protesting against the tremendous student loan debt burden that&#x27;s creeping ever bigger on the one hand while touting college degrees as being the ONLY way to get a high-paying &quot;respectable&quot; job.<p>It&#x27;s not &quot;us&quot;, it&#x27;s politicians who service the wealthy that like to lay down those two contradictory pieces of advice (&quot;why did you get a degree if you didn&#x27;t want debt?&quot; &#x2F; &quot;why did you not get a degree if you wanted a decent job?&quot;).