Are college degrees overrated?

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This just tilts me. Most of these big US companies were built with guys without college degrees.

We can start with Bill Gates. I went to KFC last night for take out and I doubt the Colonel had a degree either. I was in Florida last year and every fucking street seemed to have a Publix. I doubt that dude had a degree either and if he did it contributed nothing to his company.

I have a cousin who is waiting tables 3 years after getting a degree and is swimming in debt. Graduated with a Marketing degree and it swimming in debt with college loans. Funny, you can default on a house loan, but you default on a college loan you can end up in jail.

Funny story my grandfather told me years ago. He went into a shop where he went to often and met the owner one day. He asked this successful man where he went to college? He laughed and replied by pointing to people in his shop 'You see him, he went to college. That one over there went to Harvard. All these people around me went to college, so why do i need college?'

If that story is so "funny" then why does it come off so bitter ?