Diploma Dumbos Are Sorry You Asked
As a substitute for taxes, where their post-tax income will be exactly the same, corporations should give a high salary and pay the tuition for the most talented to study what is needed. It will pay for itself many times over.
That's what baseball does with its signing bonuses, but the low-talents who would never get into college under a system that rewarded the talented upfront all have a self-interest in preaching that what baseball does is irrelevant to what other businesses ought to do.
Those who hate baseball because they have no athletic talent would jealously require 18-year-old Blue Chips to get out a loan to pay the minors to train them, living on low-paying off-season jobs, like teenagers afraid to grow up.