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Sad_Face posted...

Not agreeing with universal free college tuition =/= disregarding societal benefits of higher education.

Don't twist my point.

My apologies - I took "Why bother?" to show dismissal of the benefit of higher education since your two sentences afterwards were arguing such.

We're in a country right now where the vast majority of people have degrees but are underemployed in relation to their education due to the overall saturation of degree holders in the market. Disregarding obvious fields where you need a license to operate in, we have tech companies more than willing to hire someone who built a portfolio of projects in his spare time using the wealth of knowledge and information freely available over people who studied the craft in school. So what is the argument right now for universal free college tuition?

This statement also seems to argue against higher education (in tech) rather than free tuition.
But to answer your specific question - two points come to mind:
1) I'm not sure your broad statement is true - there are some people that have been hired due to work without formal training, but they are the exception, not the rule.
2) Free college tuition would greatly benefit the disadvantaged who don't have the free time to learn from "the wealth of knowledge and information freely available", much less have the time to "build a portfolio".