Why most people do not need a college degree

Sure, if you want to study engineering or law or become a doctor then yes, a degree is for you.
Otherwise? From Campus Reform:

Oregon State prof blames 'White Christians' for West Coast wildfires
Oregon State University Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Professor Susan Shaw claims that the denial of climate change by “White Christians” is a contributing factor to the wildfires now ravaging California, Oregon, and Washington State.

The professor claims that “the intensity and scope of these fires are a result of climate change.” She then attributes the blame for the fires’ potency on “white Christians” given that, as she claims, “many Christians, especially white Christians, have embraced denial of climate science.”

“The West is burning while most white Christians turn away from the root causes of the devastation,” writes Shaw, before adding that “White evangelicals continue to support Donald Trump overwhelmingly, even though the Trump administration has tried to roll back more than 100 environmental protection regulations.”

When Campus Reform asked Shaw about the language she used, she responded by saying, “I don’t think that language is necessarily racially divisive or charged. It’s descriptive, and it’s the language the research I cited uses to look at climate science beliefs across Christians.”

The idea that we would have such a position as Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Professor shows how far down the rabbit hole colleges and universities have gotten these days.

OSU is the victim of The long march through the Institutions - a long-term tactic employed by the marxists when they failed to institute communism back in the 1960's. They figured that they would infiltrate the schools, colleges and universities and pump the impressionable student's brains full of marxist mush so, even though their own coup attempt failed, they would get the next generation to try the same thing. Three words: loser, loser and loser.

College? Save your money, go to a trade school and learn something you can use for the rest of your life.  Welding is good.