For sure I'm not going to negate it has indeed opened thousands of doors previously closed without it. I wasn't working as a professionally trained cleaner, then call centre agent for NatWest and then an office manager for the Disable People's Commission in Hammersmith (and Fulham) town hall because I was eager for any of those jobs but because I didn't have this piece of paper.
As soon as I was about to get it I got hired as the first person working for Survation without a masters degree, let alone a degree and NOT on an internship.
But it's all psychological really.
It's all about perception, hierarchy and class war.