College is a luxury good

@Cosmic
College is a luxury bad

@Cosmic
Colleague is 3 different things for 3 groups of people
1) Academics.
Academics don't care either about money nor about utility of the degree. They want to "do research", and usually come from families rich enough, not to understand the concept of money. They don't care about the price, so it's a necessity for their future plans of being useless.
2) Perpetual students
People who didn't have the talk with their father, and have no idea what they want to do. They will need the work, and the debt will only hurt them, but they are too dumb to see, that they're being sucked dry.
3) Actually employable people
Good fucking luck mining any utility out of most degrees. The academics and perpetual students don't understand why a programmer degree should actually have some programming classes, when that time could be spend on philosophy, or even ecology class. At least it increases a chance of you getting hired slightly, but you HAVE TO make your own program, and the day you're hired, focus 100 percent just on the job. The classes are worthless at that point.

I dropped out of college years ago because programming courses are "take this unrelated history class or math class to maybe get a chance at learning programming one day". Everyone winds up dropping out or is eternally stuck in college, I know because everyone I know who went has been to college for years. The only people who idealize it never went to it and think that if only they did this and that they'd be somewhere in life.

Went to a reputable school, expected to do computing, got Marxist struggle session and sexually harassed instead

I can confirm the latter happened to me at my college. I didn't get struggle sessions but I did wind up pissing off teachers for the fun of it.