Sorry bro, but I'm a community college dropout making more than you will when you graduate cleaning carpets in an area one can buy a decent house for $75k, your argument is invalid.
I'd sooner cut my own testes off, put them in a blender and drink them mixed with my last load as the most disgusting protein shake than spend two years in college to get a job presenting PowerPoint slideshows to guys in suits saying HARUMPH for 800 whole dollars a week before taxes.
Nowhere did I say that going to the college is the only way to make money. I think it's ridiculous just how few people consider a career in blue collar jobs. I know you can make great money in those fields, but in the area where I live, tech jobs are the most available and the highest potential salaries. The blue collar jobs here don't have the same opportunities for high salaries given the cost of living in the Bay Area. If you can make it work where you are, then more power to you. But you don't meet to be condescending about my choice of study.