It's kind of some people's fault though. I mean, people who should have known better (many of whom who stood to profit from people not knowing better) worked hard to sell the people who are now in their twenties and early thirties on the idea that a college degree would be a necessary and sufficient condition for steady, gainful employment.

I managed to get out of that situation without any student debt, and I wish I could say that was because I saw through the lie, but the truth is that luck was a big factor as well. My confidence in my conclusion that we were being sold a bill of goods was weak enough that under other circumstances, I could have easily gotten burned badly. I know a lot of people who didn't get so lucky.