&gt; Businesses are not built on the charity of the &quot;system&quot;.<p>From where does the business get the college-educated workforce so that it can be viable in the first place?<p>The answer is that hundreds of years of prosperity has created a system where enough people are middle class, value education, foster happy and curious children that don&#x27;t need to work, and can send them off to college for an education because they don&#x27;t need to enter the labour force until they&#x27;re twenty-something.<p>We stand on the shoulders of giants in many, many, many ways.