For most of my career, nobody 'created' a job for me. I went out and figured out something useful to do, did it, and made a living.

And would we imagine a society of capable, educated, useful people is not preferable to a society of ignorant unskilled people? Why would we wish that on ourselves? How does that improve the world?

Even worse, the implied understanding that our society cannot function without an uneducated subject class is worrisome. Are the socialists right, and Capitalism/the free market demands a slave class?

Anyway, with automation any such demand diminishes yearly and is already small.

>And would we imagine a society of capable, educated, useful people is not preferable to a society of ignorant unskilled people?

Have you been involved much in hiring? I suspect if you had it would disabuse you of the notion that university is effective at producing "capable, educated, useful people".

Until you interview people who haven't been to college.

For people who make it through the initial technical screening to the on-site round, I think there's probably a positive correlation to outcome for those who are self-taught. (I equally suspect there's a higher percentage filtered out before on-site, of course.)

And the best results are with those who were self-taught, and then went to college on top of that.