Yes, I too enjoy that universities never send students to pointless filler courses. I really enjoyed writing long essays about ethics in software engineering for people who'd barely even read them. I especially benefited from being told that "tell your boss, tell HR, then make a police report and quit if that didn't fix it" is not an appropriate response to being asked to break the law at work.

While we're talking about things we're grateful for, I am so glad that we've structured the education and employment systems such that not having a degree puts you at significant risk of unemployment, prevents you from ever immigrating anywhere for the first decade of your working life, and generally marks you as a failure.

Do you... not understand that the point of giving you a class on ethics in software development wasn't so you would produce an essay?

> I am so glad that we've structured the education and employment systems such that not having a degree puts you at significant risk of unemployment

It's not like this in every country, though.

Bingo! I agree with where you’re going with this line of thinking.

If you want the certificate, it must be issued by the certificate authority.

If you want to make your own certificates, good luck getting them on the trusted list.

The cert authorities are mostly untrustworthy anyhow.

Companies need to bring folks in on a probation period and actually test the skills are there.

School isn't a place for smart people, Morty.