Hell, chasing your dreams in capitalism doesn’t even require you to get a degree at all, all you need to do is inherit expensive real estate from your parents and all the freedom in the world is yours’.
If can’t because you don’t come from a background that is well integrated with the establishment then you just have skill issues and spend too much of your paycheck on fancy Guacamole.
When I played the Final Fantasy X remaster some time ago it honestly felt strange to play a “complete” out of the box game again. I got reminded of how it felt to actually organically discover secrets and challenge content.