Let's not forget an even worse thing the local governments push: state lotteries.
I don't see many complaining about that but you have virtually a zero percent chance of winning. That's lower than the dummy's chances of making something of his college degree.
And not much down the list is casinos.
Better hope the med device engineer designing the test equipment being used on you in ICU has more than a two year degree.
I've opted (wouldn't take them on the to the project team) out to 'deal' with many two year degree pseudo engineers that thought they were well versed engineers. Zero debt from tuition on a two year degree doesn't automatically equate even closely to being a competent Mechanical Designer.