The growth of a nation

I had once thought it would be a bad idea to go to college, when I was just old enough to consider going. When I was very young it was still only an option, if you wanted to be a doctor or lawyer it seemed necessary but if you wanted to work a sales job or a general office function it was totally a waste of time. Now everyone has a degree, making it harder to compete for even trivial jobs. I myself took a little training back in the day just to gain a bit of knowledge and land a job, but it would be a stretch to call that college. It's getting to the point that an extra four years of schooling (at least) is mandatory for a good career. Or is it? If I don't have a degree, I might not be hired - but I can always start my own business and hire people with degrees to work for me. Is this what it means when they say "the A students work for the D students?". Starting a business is something like having a baby, as in, you can do so in America and it doesn't require any training or qualification, is that a bad thing? I'd say no. Some people can't hack it in rigid hierarchical structures, and often the only recourse is starting a structure of their own. So we've got a person who didn't do well in school, didn't learn much, didn't go to college but in the end they grow a huge company that can make financial contributions to election campaigns and afford to lobby for their own interests. Meanwhile the 'smart' college grads paying off their school loans seem to have little time for much else than doing what their bosses tell them. Sure they vote, as any smart person would, but they don't get to pay millions of dollars toward getting the right person elected, they don't have time during the day to ponder questions about where their business is going and how to make it better with legislation. They've spent their creative energy today on someone else living their dreams, and there's nothing wrong with that- it's why we pay so much to get an education right? Soon hopefully, we'll all have chips in our brain that interface with the cloud, our knowledge will be standardized and schools will no longer be necessary.  When that happens I wonder what the ratio of small business to big business will become?