A certification or a college degree is a kind of recommendation, if you think about it. The company wants someone to vouch for you.
The high value placed on the latter is mostly due to how much status we place on the institutions granting them.
I think it's interesting to think of college not as a place where you learn useful things, but as a place that bestows you the status of college-degree-haver, effectively putting you in a higher social class.
This is how people tend to think of college even if they don't say it explicitly
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2023-04-23 23:09:40
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