This follow-up isn&#x27;t meant as a disagreement, just thinking &#x27;out-loud&#x27;:<p>So what do we solve this problem then? While our economy does demand increased knowledge for a good wage we also ALL know about the near pointless demand for increased credentials. We ALL know a certain chunk of top-echelon jobs are all but removed based on our university pedigree. This isn&#x27;t even efficient for the economy, but that&#x27;s a completely different post.<p>We need to get more people more education, we need to quit demanding absurd amounts of credentials for everything from a barber to a glorified desk jockey, and we need to not cut off people from a prosperous life path because of their pedigree or poor decisions made in the first 22 years of their life.<p>Online degrees were&#x2F;are an attempt to solve this. So how do we fix them or what else do we do?