In the USA we have a public education system that strongly indoctrinates our youth (and their parents) for 13 years that kids must go to college and must get a degree or they are utterly worthless, given that its &quot;pay or die&quot; they&#x27;ll pay anything.  Will not talk about apprenticeships or the trades upon pain of being fired from the educational establishment.  With a side dish of propaganda that all educational debt is good productive debt.  There&#x27;s also a widely held misconception that high paying jobs are magically handed out with each diploma, so an increase in the number of diplomas issued magically means high paying jobs are created, which is tragicomic.