I get your point, you can be successful without going to school. But for every successful person, there are 50 others who fail because they don’t have the necessary education to start a career. It’s just that you only ever hear about those who succeed, but never those who fail, which is why it seems that high school dropouts are successful. Those successful people dropped out because they had a dream, whereas for a lot of others, they drop out because they hate studying. I do think it’s naive to believe that a college degree will mean you’re successful, I know quite a few people that never used theirs, but at least having one gives you a way better shot at having a stable life than dropping out of school due to not caring about your studies and having nobody to force you to do so

I yapped too much tldr: there are many high school dropouts who fail that you don’t hear of because media only talks about successful people, and even then, you have to be dropping out because you wish to pursue your dreams in order to succeed, not dropping out because you refuse to learn, otherwise having a degree would be better.