Zuby nails it.
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College Graduates are more likely to never read a book again, and on average read fewer books per year than Highschool Graduates. It doesn't take many years for the highschool graduate to be more intellectually advanced than the college graduate.
Add into that the old saying: a Jack of all trades is a master of none, but always better than the master of one.
One of hundreds of examples over the past 20 years:
Buddy: "Hey man you can't run a naked HVAC duct through an attic."
HVAC guy: "I know what I'm doing I went to college for this."
Me: "Hot plus cold makes water."
HVAC guy: blank stare
Buddy: "Oookay. Uh, where's [General Contractor]?"
Fast forward to HVAC guy arguing with the GC and getting kicked off of site for being a fucking retard.
Also, by the time I was of age to have graduated college 22, I had been halfway around the world twice on a nuclear aircraft carrier, visited 10 countries, participated in some history off rhe coast of Lebanon, completed all my initial military training and scored about 30 college credits while my ship was at sea, free not to mention the experience of doing a job 12 hours a day 7 days a week. That all was about 2.5 years because I was 20 when I went in.
And I got paid