The trend started with shitlibs noticing people with college degrees earned more. Their ideology of equality didn't allow them to realize such people were smarter. Instead they decided it has to be the degree. So the push to put more and more (average or worse) people into college started. Then colleges noticed there's money to be made. We now have self-perpetuating vested interests getting more and more people edumacated, regardless of their competence and usefulness in the end. Which is devaluing degrees. The whole system needs to be replaced to reestablish competence.