Incidentally, the college degree is fast losing value like the high school degree did. (Edit: as is evidenced by BW's post above.)
Employers started requiring college degrees when graduating from high school started meaning you are able to show up at a building at least some of the time until people finally pushed you out.
A college degree has been devalued as well: those graduating haven't become much more productive than when they entered, they just now have a
signal that they are slightly brighter than those that couldn't make it through college.
It's a shame, too. When our society decided everyone should graduate high school we dumbed down school.
We should have examined our beliefs and realized maybe not everyone should graduate high school. Not everyone should go to college.
Everyone
should have an option to increase their value, whether it be through education or skill development.
Why have we devalued skilled labor? In this matter, I love what
Mike Rowe is doing.