When you accept that the jobs most college graduates do are meaningless make-work and that even corporations are hiring vast numbers of these drones to do nothing of value in contravention of basic market principles then you see that higher education is functionally one giant scam to keep the masses stupefied, compliant, and too busy to breed or rebel against their overlords.
The public will judge a man by what he lifts, but those close to him will judge him by what he carries.