Goddamnit. It's late and I have studying to do tomorrow (today), but it's the weekend and I already read and liked the first link when it was posted... Now that I've read 3/4 of them, this question is sort of tangential.

Hipsters on Foodstamps.

Great article, even through to the end which makes me scroll back to the top:

In other words, the choice to major in English was predicated on information she received from multiple sources like schools and TV-- sources I will collectively call the Matrix-- that every generation does better than the last, that there was a safety net of sorts, a bailout at the end, that future happiness was inevitable, and so we return to economics: the general name for that safety net is credit. America was the land of the minimum monthly payment. And if this analogy isn't clear enough for you, let me reverse it: the ability of the economy to offer English as a major required a massive subsidy to make you feel like $20k/yr was the same as free. If you had to pay it up front, you'd either be an engineer or $80k richer. That subsidy is now worthless, not because the money doesn't exist but because the bailout at the end, e.g the four options I suggested were operational 1977-1999 which guaranteed the payments would be made, won't help.

Fact: college is a waste, but we haven't yet hit that point in society where we can bypass it. So we have to pass through another generation of massive college debt. How to pull in the suckers in? Answer: these articles. By getting you to say, "these hipsters should be able to get jobs because they are college graduates!" you are saying, "college is worth something." It isn't. But by directing your hate towards hipsters, you are protecting the system against change.

Perhaps the amount of time I've been awake is wearing on my ability to pull this all together, but the conclusion here is supported by... well, college educated hipsters relying food stamps? As an example of a B.A.'s lack of utility? A B.A. as a gateway to a woman's relationship being ridiculous? I must be missing a lot, since the case I'm reading is "everything you can get at a college, you can find elsewhere" (B.A. representing certification of what 'you can get').

Hell, if this is all true what am I even doing in college. Going to try and sleep on this one. More than likely going to come back and add an edit if I gain any clarity pre-maturely.