What College Is Actually Optimized For

This video reflects on college not as an idea, but as a system—one shaped by incentives, rankings, and historical assumptions that no longer align with the lives of most students.

Rather than asking whether college is “worth it,” the reflection looks at a quieter issue: what colleges are structurally designed to reward, and who benefits when those designs go unquestioned.

This is not an argument against education. It is an attempt to separate learning from the machinery that claims to deliver it.