People like Whoopi Goldberg claim that college graduates can't even get jobs good enough to afford food and gas and yet they still insist that college is a necessary and worthy investment. It's totally incoherent. There is no good argument for going to college right out of high school. It's insane that we encourage it. There is literally no downside to taking a few years to establish yourself and earn some money before making that decision. Lots of downsides to the other approach, though. The university system wants kids funneled directly from high school into their institutions because they're afraid that many of the kids might otherwise find a career or vocation where college isn't necessary. It's a total scam. And most of us go along with it without protest.