>>60771194
Midwits think degrees means you're smart.
Stupid people and especially midwits can't think for themselves, so they have to look for indirect factors. In this case, they can't gauge a person's intelligence, so they have to look at pieces of paper to get an idea of who's smart.
Obviously this is fucking stupid, and in fact in the current college situation, actually means the person is the opposite of intelligence.
It's like how women can't gauge a man's personality, so they wait an arbitrary amount of time before having sex, thinking that'll filter out the players, when in reality it does the exact opposite.