The position
A university degree is no longer worth it
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Counteraxiom argues against
The salary premium for a four-year degree is the largest in measured history and still rising. The median college graduate out-earns the median non-graduate by roughly a million dollars over a career, after netting out tuition and four lost earning years. The dropout-billionaire stories are real and almost entirely irrelevant to the distribution.
What university buys you that bootcamps and YouTube don't is the same thing it has always bought you: signalling, network, and the social licence to spend four years failing safely at things harder than what your high school could put in front of you. The signalling part is unfair. It is also extremely real.
The correct critique isn't of university; it's of price. Tuition has decoupled from value-add. But the answer to overpriced is to fix the price, not to send your kid into an apprentice-less labour market with no credentials at eighteen.
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