[aetherson]

If you read a little further, you'd find his point is that his nephew was not well-suited to university, but that his family felt obligated to shove him through it because your prospects are so limited if you do not get a bachelor's degree.

[btkramer9]

I think his family should have felt obligated to shove him through it. I also think it's his fault for not understanding why or what he could have done instead. I do think he is better off too. Sure, he's worked a couple bad postgrad jobs and is currently unemployed but someone with his work ethic that stops after high schools usually ends up way worse. Maybe married with two kids working at costco just trying to scrape by. No one wants to be in that situation.

It's probably unfair for me to be assuming so much about him but it just reminds me of so many people I've seen in my life and I don't empathize for him at all.