A large corporation operating where I live will provide employment, and invest in the local community.
Who? How much do the workers get? Can they live off it? Is the manufacturing division in the same town or over the border? Do the corporate headquarters only employ people with degrees? In what way do they invest in the local community? Does the CEO have a private jet that he didn't pay for? Does the CEO have a private jet that YOU helped pay for? Do they make cancer medicine and raise the prices every year? How much tax does the corporation pay relative to how much you pay and how does it scale against their contribution back into the society?
Someone training for a degree that isn't relevant to the job they end up working in doesn't help me.
How do you know that? An educated person living in your community might very well contribute something. Perhaps it's something you're not aware of, or maybe that person starts a business of their own. Maybe someone with a worthless degree in art history winds up working for a company that helps re-design and rejuvenate a town center, the town you live in. Maybe they create an ad campaign that helps clean up an area or bring drug use down.
I want to go to uni, I want to study history. But I don't expect society to pay that for me, because I don't need to go, and it doesn't bring substantial benefit to others.
You make your contribution, you deserve your cut. Everyone gets their fair share. Go and get your free history degree and then go work for a TV station that teaches kids about the magic of learning through history. You end up paying taxes back into the system AND you've helped keep kids away from bad influences and given them a passion for learning. Go you! Well done!
If you can't see why someone who will never go to college doesn't want to pay for someone to get a degree they don't need, then I thin your being dishonest.
Everyone pays. EVERYONE. Contribute to a war machine or contribute to the people of your country to create a better place. Choose.