I agree with what you said about the toxic market and the poisonous blend of state and capitalism - I'm a moderate libertarian, but the evidence overwhelmingly indicates if you're not going to have genuine capitalism in a sector, you are actually better off with honest socialism like we have in Europe than with pretend capitalism which gives you the worst of both worlds.

I must, however, take issue with your last sentence. That is, I agree education has benefits, but the current school/college system is hardly at all about education and mostly about potlatch: burning away some of the best years of your life in an attempt to obtain relative status. Sure, a college degree might improve your chances of getting a good job, but in most occupations that only means you got the job at someone else's expense; it's a negative sum game.

Proposed practical solution: outside fields like law and medicine (where college actually provides necessary training, albeit in a very inefficient way), make it illegal for hiring to discriminate on the basis of college degree.