there are countless less fortunate folks

whose stories you never hear.

But if you did, they might sound something like this.

Yeah, dude, I thought I was gonna be Zuckerberg, too.

I was wrong.

College dropouts are 71% more likely to be unemployed.

No... You guys are just lazy.

I'm driven, I know I'd get a job.

Yeah, maybe, but you're not gonna get rich.

College grads make more than high school grads

at every point

of their careers.

What?

Why are you guys even recruiting?

Something to do, I guess.

Those numbers are crazy.

But my dad doesn't have a degree.

He did fine. So what changed?

Our economy.

Over the past few decades, getting a middle class job

without a college degree has become way more difficult.

Since 1985, on average, the US has lost over

300,000 manufacturing jobs per year.

Whoa, I think that's more than, like,

Steve Aoki's Instagram followers.

And at the same time, we've gained jobs in skilled fields.

In the last 20 years, software jobs have gone up by over 500%.

And in the past decade,

Internet jobs have increased by 600%.

And those jobs require a college education.

In the six years since the great recession,

less than one percent of jobs created have gone to those

with a high school diploma or less.

Whoa, that's it?

Yeah.

That's why even Bill Gates himself

says more Americans need to go to college.

Really? Bill Gates said that?

Yup, the truth is a college education

is a virtual necessity to compete in today's economy.

That's why it's such a shame