But what about the people who dig ditches?

[harumph]

28. Well, some are "smart" enough to know that they

can go further and faster in the trades than getting any number of useless degrees flogged by colleges and universities and spending years to pay off the loans unless they came from money.

If prospective students were confident that $ awaited them post graduation, I'm sure you would see more of an influx of "smart" people into colleges. I'm excepting truly difficult courses of study. But how many are going to be scientists, doctors, mathematicians, etc.?

BTW, my wife and I were at IKEA the other day and a salesperson was overheard talking about differences between Platonic vs Aristotelian approaches to aesthetics.