>>176945The Internet, and now especially AI, have made the university largely obsolete. Anyone with the gumption can learn more, in a shorter amount of time, by sitting in front of a computer, than they would by going to university and going into debt. Society has not yet caught up with the new reality, because college is big business, so they continue to dangle the promise of the magic paper being the key to success in life, and they sell the sportsball and party culture to snooker the kids. Parents are still in the mode of wanting their kids to go because they did. Smart people who are ahead of the curve are learning trades, you will always need tradesmen because they can't be off-shored, downsized, or replaced by AI.