[exolymph]

> Most people in prison are too stupid for college.

Agreed, this is probably true for our current definition of "college"

> A much better solution is to limit college education to a fixed single digit percentage of the population so it can't be used as an expensive arms race of a signaling mechanism by everybody else.

Holy shit, that's a galaxy brain take. I agree that college status signaling is out of control, but doing this would just move the signaling elsewhere. Also it would be a bit fascist IMO.

Anyway, upvoted for interestingness.

[SamReidHughes]

Well I don't mean to ban private colleges -- don't have public ones other than top level state schools, and don't subsidize loans. Replace four years of debt/idleness with four years of income, and later, more years of retirement.