I completely understand that there are many ways we could make higher education less expensive and more accessible, but I also think we have cultivated a society in which a growing number of people think they are simply entitled to everything they want in life (think housing) with no strings attached.
Our kids weren’t interested in tech as careers, and have done well in medicine, law and business. Yet, over 50% of the kids who finished college (at great schools with great degrees) when our kids did, still haven’t found career positions in their chosen fields.
Many have been offered jobs in places they don’t want to go, so that’s another big problem they are having. Apparently, their parents didn’t inform them that the diploma does not come with guarantees.
In general, I think you are going to see greater and greater numbers of disillusioned young people–even those with degrees–in the world when they realize the realities of life are not what they expected.