Most of the people I've encountered with the degrees who can't count are marketing students and athletes. I'm not talking about public college/university just as a means to a competitive edge on the job market. It's not really that if it's available to everyone who wants it and can manage it. If someone just wants to get a basic business education, I'm all for letting them skip the gen eds even though I believe it's a mistake to make that choice personally. Or a trades education, we could probably do better job recruiting people to that stuff. Nobody was recruiting people to trades when I was in high school but we had the military in there monthly. I also think the humanities, sciences, fake sciences like economics and psychology, are pretty important to develop and preserve as society and people shouldn't avoid these if they're interested in them just because the exact job isn't apparent. There's a lot of people with all kinds of different irrelevant degrees at my place of business that do good work, work hard, play team ball when it's time because a lot that stuff is just learned on the job and that's easier to do when you've already had experience studying a specific subject more rigorously than at any point K-12.
I obviously don't think we can pay for Van Wilder for everyone but there is a lot of valuable education that just can't happen K-12.