If the signal to corporations disappears the wage premium to a college education disappears and the students disappear along with the tuition paying the professors’ salaries.

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curiousllama 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Maybe? Elite colleges have been around a lot longer than the professional credentialism of the last 20 years, no?

	▲	jimbokun 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The point was still the credentials. Otherwise what signal does “prominent family and graduated from Harvard” have over just “prominent family”?