It isn’t a way into certain job markets anymore, as they are also gatewayed by networking or a surplus of degrees without the practical skills needed especially for niche positions. 🥲

Since college degree doesn’t secure you to even low-income job in chosen profession anymore, the whole idea of spending time and money studying there becomes obsolete.

Don’t worry socio-economic circumstances like lower literacy, inability to help with home work and higher rent in university town will keep the poor uneducated.

Worse than that, they want normal people to be ignorant so they can be more easily convinced to vote against their own interests.