Elon Musk just slapped a price tag on the 'obedience' of modern universities: $200,000. You don’t need college to learn stuff. Pretty much all knowledge is now available for free on a screen. The purpose of college, to put it bluntly, is just for fun and to prove you can finish boring chores on time. This isn’t just some random snarky comment—it exposes the harshest business truth behind those sky-high tuition fees. Today, all 8 billion people on Earth have access to the same digital library in their pockets. The monopoly on knowledge has crumbled over the past decade. But universities are still hustling to sell that $200,000 ticket. Musk stripped the Ivy League of its branding and revealed the underlying logic: it’s a four-year obedience test. The system doesn’t need you to be exceptional; it just needs you to be controllable and manageable. It takes the most creative years of your life and trains you to habitually wait for instructions. Gates dropped out. Jobs dropped out. Ellison dropped out. They didn’t leave because they couldn’t keep up—they left because the ceiling of the system was just too low. The ones who’ll really feel the pain next aren’t the unemployed graduates, but the massive middlemen who’ve been profiting off selling diploma-driven anxiety and exploiting the information gap. When technology and information truly become cheap and accessible, the traditional elite selection game will have to be reshuffled. Ordinary people, stop blindly feeding the old system. In this era, evidence of exceptional ability will always come from what you’ve personally created, not the piece of paper in your hand.