I have to disagree so vigourosly, I'm not quite sure where to start. Business degrees are useless? Try getting a job at an accounting, consulting, banking or other financial services firm without a business degree.
Without a college degree you close a virtually infinite number of doors that may lead to very lucrative careers. While a college degree may not make you smarter or make you a better person, it does open allow for possibilities that would otherwise be unavailable to a non-degreed job candidate.
Most companies couldn't really care less what your degree is in, so long as you have one. My advice to someone who wasn't excited about college; study something you enjoy and that comes as naturally as possible - if you find a career in that field, great. If not, at least you have a diploma to put on your CV, and that alone will be worth the effort and expense.
I agree with you 100% - most of the anti-college crowd either don’t want to pay for their kids to go to college, or don’t have a degree themselves and have some kind of chip on their shoulder about those who do.
Why does he need to help someone else balance their books when he can hire someone to do HIS books? I don't want him to NEED a "job", but rather build his own businesses, so he will be doing the hiring instead of relying on Career counselor morons and sending resumes out to 500 companies on a panic-driven fishing expedition. I went through that crap, which was one of my big motivators that he and my daughter not have to do so.