Well, who wants to hit on a girl who didn't even make it through college? When that socially awkward 28-year-old "techie" comes in and pays $7 for 620 calories of milk, sugar and coffee so bitter that it would be undrinkable without all the added sugar, he's doing it because he wants to run "Day Game" on the barista. How can he do that if it's not a girl he could actually, at least in theory, marry, because she doesn't have a BA?

(No, these aren't my actual attitudes. I'm trolling. But most people who make important decisions in our economy think that way, although they won't those sentiments so openly. Sometimes you have to think like a horrible person in order to know how the horrible people think. )

By the way, of the economic elite that is running the U.S. into the ground-- the ones who control job definition, in VC, what kinds of companies can be formed-- most of them actually know that they're doing it. They don't see the long-term severity, but they know that they're making the world poorer and themselves no richer by shutting the labor market down. They want white maids. Downton Abbey is porn for them. But that's another discussion entirely.