I can't justify paying today's asking price for knowledge which is freely available if you're willing to get off your ass. You don't have to be Will Humping to explore things that interest you. Also can't justify the cost of the ticket that opens the door to the interview where you're expected to lick their ass so they can overwork & underpay you and sack you on a whim as soon as a cheaper, better ass licker comes along. A college degree defending you against the 'realities of the market' went out of style in 1973. And don't you forget it, Worker #45483.
I can't believe that people tolerate and continue to recommend a path which puts the young in debt at 18 and keeps them there more or less forever (student loan, various credit, mortgage, medical at the end). Like Carlin said: "They'll get it. They'll get it all." Blows my simple little mind.
I can't stand the way people, even educators, regard uni as a tool for money making and sell it as such. It's just glorified trade school anymore. Individual development is an afterthought, at most. Never a priority. Look around. Philistine mutherfuckers entrenched at all levels. It's like Invasion of the Education Snatchers out there. Where's the educated people? All I see are bored technicians of one kind and another cogging away in the machine and calling it a career. Not trying to be a dick but it occurs to me that if the table wasn't quite so tilted then people wouldn't obsess about money 24/7 and they'd get to study things of no commercial value whatsoever and we wouldn't have wall-to-wall boring, unhappy bastards. "The Information Age," they called it, with a straight face.