For tech's new generation, college is an expensive waste

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'...Today, a perfect storm of economic, political, and technological forces is driving young people — mostly men, as every noncollege techie I interviewed happened to be — to circumvent college entirely. For one, higher education has grown prohibitively expensive: In 2024, the average federal student loan debt was just under $30,000 for those who completed a bachelor's degree, and all-in costs for some four-year degrees have now surpassed half a million dollars....
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Like many of the young men I spoke with for this piece, JC Btaiche tells me he's "pretty obsessed" with the Apple founder. In high school, he mimicked Jobs' practice for almost a year, looking into the mirror by his bed daily. "Every morning I'd be, like, 'I don't want to go to school,'" he says. "Life is too short. There's strong examples of people who have not gone to college who have done incredibly well." At some point, he stopped showing up to most classes. After graduating from high school, Btaiche decided not to attend college and soon after, when he was 19, founded Fuse Energy, a nuclear fusion startup.'