[Aloha]

You dont have to go to Stanford to get a decent job, or even work for Nvidia.

You dont have to go to a top tier school, or even college at all to be a working (and decent) engineer.

Going to Stanford and taking on gobs of debt is absolutely a choice you make, I agree with you about discharging college debt, and whatnot, but some of this is based on choices individuals make.

[waswaswas]

Due to generous financial aid policies, Stanford ends up being free or cost-to-family less than flagship state schools for all but (depending on definition) the professional class and wealthy...