You&#x27;d get into trouble (meaning, pointless unproductive argument) with me trying to bring general intelligence into a discussion about HR directors as well, so that&#x27;s a topic we&#x27;re better off ignoring.<p>The good news is, we don&#x27;t have to dig into that. All I&#x27;m saying is that it&#x27;s calamitously expensive, across multiple axes (direct cost, opportunity cost, brittleness of opportunities) to assess capacity to perform the job of &quot;HR Director&quot; by looking for a 4-year degree.<p>I doubt that you believe a UMich Russian Lit degree is intrinsically an important qualification to work in HR (HR: one of the fastest growing white-collar jobs in the US, hence that example). I&#x27;m saying: that&#x27;s a market inefficiency, and if you could find a way to arbitrage it, you could make a mint while making it possible for more people to get stable white-collar employment without reading Solzhenitsyn in a dorm room.