“So that’s what Steve Wozniak, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Guglielmo Marconi, did wrong. Someone should have told them.”
And you only had to go back 45 years to find someone. Wozniak was working at HP. Find a 20 year old without college working as a programmer.
The people you mentioned were inventors. For every Wozniak there are thousands if not millions who will never have a patent on anything.
That was me at 20. I bought a 4 bedroom house that year, had a blond/blue girlfriend to spend time with rather than lefty narcissistic professors. I've had an easy life and can retire early. I work with PhDs and am happily married to one. College is great for those that don't learn well reading books on their own, have a chunk of change and 4 years to spend, and can tolerate the indoctrination. But it's not for everyone, including about 20% of those that work in engineering.