College is not perfect and not for everyone but calling it "largely false promises" is laughably inaccurate: https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2025/data-on-display/educa...
Now the more controversial stance is we can't say this earning power is causal. That's why specifically I said people buy the gateway ticket into these higher earning jobs. It's self-perpetuating.
I can't disagree with the data, what I can say is people that out-earn non-college people is not _because_ of college. The population represented by non-college goes really down really deep for large variety of socio-economic reasons let's just say.