Part of the issue is that many places use a bachelor's degree as a screen for employees. As a token that gets you past one turnstile in the job hunt, it is worth a ton!

It also takes a certain type of person to be an entrepreneur. Not everyone has that instinct or motivation.

I'm a big fan of ideas to change the way post-secondary education is done. Right now, it's expensive, time-consuming, and undertaken when you don't know what you want or need. However, right now HR people just love that BA and that BA puts you in a certain class (beyond work or money, but in terms of associates/friends). And people are willing to pay up for that. How do you get the HR industry to start valuing alternative modes of education and experience? Our universities have a reputation built over hundreds of years - if not for educating people, then for screening intelligence.

It's a wonderful essay, I guess I'm just cautious and would want more social change around the issue before I felt comfortable following this path.