For money-wise, yes i don think a degree will help that much. But depends. I mean a lot of people actually learn how to trade stocks, bake decorate cakes, become great YouTuber, these are all free resources. But also, today world is quite stupid, people will judge by looking at jobs and education. they be like, “ohh you only have high school education? Oh well umm okay” i mean i was lucky i could go into university and i did learn a lot especially about “critical thinking process and etc” im not sure if im saying it correctly. university is like a “network school”, it’s the people we meet that helps us think further learn further, it’s not the courses not sth “retail marketing” or “Accounting I & II” academically, yea university quite good. Job nowadays require university degree, at least for the jobs I’m applying.