[wlesieutre]

No, but it does mean that accredited hammers were only available for $100,000 and up, it would still make sense for you to buy one.

The problem isn't that you can't get educated outside of the university education system. It's that people assume that someone with a college degree is educated, and someone without one isn't.

I consider that no more accurate as assertions that grade school students haven't learned anything unless they can pass a standardized test, but I don't think there's an easy solution. For the near future at least, college degrees will continue to be the main criteria for guessing if someone's qualified for a lot of jobs.

[skybrian]

Accreditation is a barrier to entry, but it's not insurmountable. The supply can still go up, particularly if prices are expected to rise.

[doyoulikeworms]

Every single hypothetical barrier to entry just short of "insurmountable" can be described this way.