The American university grift is one of the largest and most complicated scams in all of human history, maybe tied with insurance.
We literally live in an era of free and unlimited information. I can fix nearly every part of my car with the help of a few YouTube videos. Every law of man and nature is available for perusal, and yet we are all under this blatant lie that you need to go thousands of dollars in debt and give up decades of youth so that you're "well rounded" or something.