China is now a country where a high-school handyman has a master’s degree in physics; a cleaner is qualified in environmental planning; a delivery driver studied philosophy, and a PhD graduate from the prestigious Tsinghua University ends up applying to work as an auxiliary police officer.
These are real cases in a struggling economy - and it is not hard to find more like them.
When I went to China someone told me that masters degrees are almost mandatory now because there are so few jobs for so many people. This leads a lot of them to get masters degrees because they have nothing else to do and hope it will give them a competitive edge. Enough people are doing this now that basically anyone who wants a job has to.