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Though the problem is obviously not the one I am going to point out, I must say that these kind of reasonments also come from a totally wrong stance towards university, that is: you don't want to study because studying is nice and actually can make your life a lot better and enjoyable, but you study just because you want to avoid getting a job which you imagine will be humbling and unpleasant (even though you can't even say that because you are a teenager and you know nothing about how the work world, and actually the world itself, works). And this is really a sad thing. This is the old part of that aggressive capitalism that ended up giving birth to this aggressive entering of the AI in the working world, without any regard for workers' dignity. People once thought that high degrees could help them to make a more enjoyable world, but this dream has failed: high degrees have been a mere means for people (at least, most people) to try not to be poor (because this is the reason for which 90% of students study) thus actually contributing to the same insane market that high degrees were supposed to be able to change. Maybe degrees will lost their appeal, maybe they will return to what they once were: a great experience for the ones who love discovering things. And so, maybe we'll have (or we already have) lost an immense opportunity to enrich people from a human point of view. And remember that this is not just a consideration about humanity and fairness, because where there is not happiness, where people is so ignorant to think that the most that they can squeeze out of life is a good job, there is where economical disaster looms.