When you have to pay for education like it is a luxury, education and opportunities become commodities accessible mostly to the wealthy, which is a form of privatization. If you want onboard, you have to sign your life away in a loan. If you get one.
Since a job is locked behind a degree, bam, you got privatization by gating. It's technically not the job opportunities themselves being privatized, but the effect is pretty similar.

I absolutely agree on the part that a degree is wonderful in every regard. I would like to study mathematics one day, not because I want to work in that field necessarily, but because I adore the field. It's like my mind is made for it. Not in an arrogant genius way, more like in an endorphin way. As a kid I always closed my eyes and recreated my environment with basic shapes, using them sort of like voxels, not because of some compulsion, but because it was fun.
But I don't plan on stopping there. For me, I don't see why I couldn't just keep studying till the end of my days. I am sadly not healthy enough for that right now though. Hopefully I get well enough to follow that dream. Everything else is already in place.

I think one thing that often does not get said out loud is that you don't just learn what is on the agenda, but you also learn to socialize. Like you become a tolerable and tolerating person through such processes and I think it should be talked about way more on the front of being informed from education.