I know you said this with some degree of sarcasm, but for the vast majority of people, you are right on the money. A bachelors degree does not only “contribute no value” but in fact leaches value from the economy. I work at a FAANG with no degree, and the reason I did so (In my 20s) was because instead of wasting my time in a classroom, I was out in the workforce working on real business problems at a telecom since I was 16, in a field where educators are 10-15 years behind reality. Most of the cutting edge work at Google or Facebook or Amazon is not public information, so how the hell would a college even teach that? It’s under NDA. Same as Ma Bell and the extraordinary innovations that came out of the telecommunications industry.

A degree doesn’t just steal value in terms of money, which puts you tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of compounding debt, but it also steals your time, and indoctrinates you into a top-down style of learning. Your time, the most valuable asset in the world, could be spent solving real problems in the real world. The whole system is a scam, and I’m truly sorry for those who have fallen for it.

My advice would be to cut your losses and get into entrepreneurship or work for a company that interests you ASAP. Life is too short to participate in someone else’s profit centered system of learning (Doctors and Lawyers excepted, but only because the level of gatekeeping in those fields is so high and perverted, and backed by government, that learning only via apprenticeship has literally been outlawed)