If for no for no other reason, to become more knowledgeable. I have to be honest, the only reason I went to university was because I could do that or try to find a job during the Great Recession with only a highschool diploma. Wouldn't it be great if college was for people who genuinely wanted to learn information, and not just buy a $20,000 employment certificate?
It does for particular members of society, but not necessarily for society as a whole. Like, if the best half of the jobs always went to the half of society that went to college, but college did literally nothing but waste your time for four years, you'd want to go to college and college would not increase your generation's overall wealth.
> Education does help boost incomes. But the median college-educated millennial with student debt is only earning slightly more than a baby boomer without a degree did in 1989.