[haihaibye]

Instead of sweeping generalisations you should qualify statements if it only applies to long ago in a small non English speaking country.

> I'm not familiar with the job market relevance of a bachelor's degree today.

It's OK to say nothing if you have no information to add

[jltsiren]

My point was that people have different cultural backgrounds, and with that different expectations from academic degrees.

A bachelor's degree from the UK is not at all like one from the US, and the differences between PhDs are even bigger. Many European countries consider master's the primary undergraduate degree. A master's may be a research degree, a taught academic degree with/without a thesis, or a professional degree. Law/medical degrees may be graduate or undergraduate degrees. A bachelor's degree may or may not be a prerequisite for a master's degree, and a master's degree may or may not be a prerequisite for a doctorate. There may be intermediate degrees between a bachelor's and a master's and between a master's and a doctorate. Not all research doctorates are PhDs. An MD is not necessarily a doctorate, and the doctorate in medicine could be an MD, a PhD, or something else. Having a PhD in medicine may imply that you are not an MD.

Whatever your experiences from the academia may be, the academia is not universally like that.

[haihaibye]

> My point was that people have different cultural backgrounds, and with that different expectations from academic degree

No. Read again what you wrote. It wasn't a qualified statement about different values in different places, ie "in this culture X is more like Y" it was a general claim with no background:

"A bachelor's is a glorified dropout. A master's is the primary academic degree"

[jltsiren]

Remember the last sentence: "Or they could mean something else, depending on which traditions you are used to."