It's college grads and what they teach in colleges, combined with the requirement of a college degree to get your foot in the door. Colleges have become too powerful. Abraham Lincoln was basically self taught. Carnegie went to work as a youth and worked his way up. We are controlled by government bureaucrats and virtually every one of them has a college degree. It is a requirement of employment, so here we are. There is no way for the ambitious, smart, "non educated" person to make it to the upper middle class except for the salesman or self employed. Teachers in my state, for example, are paid according to their degree and education, not by results or circular reviews. As one of my aunts once told me when I was considering whether or not to pursue a degree, It's not how smart or capable you are, it's whether or not you have that piece of paper. (degree) This was 40 years ago. Government and businesses demand degrees, and colleges furnish them employees with degrees tainted by egg head academic BS. What needs to be done is to give colleges competition by not demanding a degree to begin with. Can you do the job? Can you pass this test? Are you of good moral character. You're hired.