Graduation: celebrate or commiserate?

I routinely warn any student who wanders into my office for advice that there will not be any job waiting for them when they graduate.
I tell them that from the summer after the sophomore years, they need to do internships/part time work in career-related fields.
If they seem to be ready for the message, then I tell them that the way we do higher education now is a scam, a ponzi scheme, and that they need to make sure they don't get fooled by all the fancy talk about how college degrees are the sure tickets to economic prosperity.

And then I wonder why I am not popular!