I would be careful about blithely saying “Well, I would never fallen into that trap in the first place”. It’s of little use to the person in the trap, and it probably attracts the wrong kind of karma.

I do approve of some of the current proposals to make higher education publish data about the debts, employment and income of their graduates. It might give pause to students considering some of the less practical fields of study. I get the education-for-it’s-own-sake thing, but I can’t help but think the professoriate isn’t perhaps completely disinterested in exploiting the less realistic dreams of their customer base.