People want to talk about investment bubbles or the national debt, but here's a topic I don't see enough of: by subsidizing investment in college education for everyone without some feedback loop to make sure grads have employable skills, we've created a huge debt burden of people owing college loans for skills the marketplace isn't valuing. And it's just getting worse. And to "fix it", just like the way we fix all these other bad policies like taxes, we'll just tighten the screws on some minority of the population that people will accept.

Quite frankly I'm disgusted at the whole thing, and I blame both political parties for it. The young are getting screwed over royally by previous generations who knew economics but failed to apply it in their policy decisions. You can't pay for something for somebody else without a very detailed and tight feedback loop. You'll only end up driving up prices and getting less value.

But to your direct point: I can't play the hypothetical game here. It has no end. I'll propose a counter-argument and you'll shoot that down, and on we go ad infinitum. My point was that it is critical to view yourself as adapting to the market, wherever that is, not the other way around. If you sit in your figurative parent's basement waiting for that management job, it's not only bad for you it's also bad for the rest of us. You have to accept your role is adaptation, and the even more bitter truth that you might have spent four years gaining nothing but a bad attitude and a boat load of debt. Blech. Not a good place to start. But for some, that's the reality of where they are.

You have to make decisions and baby steps toward adaptation. What those decisions are and what those steps are is going to vary from person to person.

ADD: Note that this is the very definition of a startup. Go find something people want and give it to them. Adapt and pivot based on what the market wants, not what you want (or have been trained) to do.