It's kind of like career suicide if you don't have a degree. If you get the job you won't get paid as much, you won't get the same promotions, and you won't get the same benefits (studies indicate you make twice as much with a bachelor's degree). But that's even if you get the job. Not to mention that one of the only advantages the western world has over countries like China is our ability to generate specialized workers and professionals. In addition to all of this, if we don't reform tuition, we'll continue to aggravate the current student debt crisis which is threatening to destroy our entire economy. If we don't change this soon, we're going to accelerate the disparity in economic growth between our rivals and our own nations and possibly cause another banking crisis that will make the subprime mortgage crisis look like child's play.
But apparently we just want "free shit".
