The answer is not to make college mandatory, the answer is to do the exact opposite. In reality, the problem Europe is facing is an overabundance of "skilled labor" and an underabundance of "unskilled labor". That should serve as a lesson that it isn't an optimally efficient choice to keep pushing salaries up and workload down. Rather, emphasis should be placed upon fighting inflation and easing cost of living. It makes less sense to "destroy blue collar jobs" in a country than it does to "make blue collar jobs a viable life choice".