College is sold as a means to getting a job, despite the fact that the skills/knowledge required to do most jobs are taught by the employer or can be learned on your own.
College is very expensive considering it checks a box for many jobs that don't actually need a degree.
Colleges never tell you "hey, this is gonna be expensive, so maybe you should consider whether you actually need it," because they get the money up-front, and lenders are guaranteed by the US Federal government to be repayed.
Few jobs actually require the sort of training that a college provides (e.g. engineering, academia, lawyering, etc).
Most of the knowledge that a college degree provides can be learned by simply reading books, which are inexpensive.
Most of the skills you'd need for a job can be learned without any formal instruction by reading books, watching YouTube, and practising at home (e.g. welding, programming, vehicle repair, cooking, tailoring, etc).
Some professors will let you sit in the classroom and listen to their lectures for free, because so few students care about what is said in lectures and a curious student is a breath of fresh air to those professors.
College might have been useful for most students 50 years ago, but today it is a scam perpetuated by at the very least the US Federal government.
My reasonsing for college being a scam:
College might have been useful for most students 50 years ago, but today it is a scam perpetuated by at the very least the US Federal government.