There's (much less) illegal immigration to Canada, but lower wage positions are filled with TFW visas

Now, the lower-tier jobs are being replaced with automation. In several Nordic countries (and even in Canada), there's fewer people doing the "cashier" role, they scan or get you the products, but you pay to a machine (either with cash or card)

College is tertiary, high school is secondary, grade school is primary.

We already have secondary education mandated, obviously. (And it makes your case stronger if you use the right term!)

Thanks for noting it, though. Life will keep you humble, always. :)

Learn to separate debt from college.

University is for everybody. Massive debt is for nobody.

Notice how I can separate those two.

Education shouldn't be forced on anyone either. The entire college debt bubble has been based on this thought that a barista needs a college degree.

What a job pays should not be defined by the required skills, at least not exclusively, it should be paid by the amount of work one does. And what a job pays is actually not defined by the required skills, it is defined by the availability and willingness of workers to do those jobs at certain wage levels, it just happens that increasing skill level and decreasing availability of workers are the same direction.

Note that I am not saying that a lazy worker taking ten times as long to produce some good as his coworkers should receive the same wage, nor I am saying you should not be compensate for spending additional years at an university to acquire higher skills. But after one accounted for those factors, it should really not make a huge difference whether you are developing software or whether you are picking oranges.

I did both, as did most people I know, and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect kids to continue to do that.