University degrees certify competence in skills that are well-understood, teachable, and widely held — which is precisely why they pay commodity wages. Education is an efficient system for producing replaceable labor. The skill-selection questions that follow from prestige or short learning curves reliably point toward commoditized work, while questions about obsession and 10-year mastery curves point toward structural scarcity.
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