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THE CONSPIRACY THEORY SURROUNDING COLLEGE TUITION COSTS

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THE FACTS
  • According to Brett Arends, MarketWatch columnist, while current debate around college costs encompasses the price of student loans and increasing Pell Grants, what we should really be talking about is the actual costs of tuition.

  • Recent graduates have paid three times as much for a 4 year degree as someone who graduated 30 years ago. The increase in tuition hasn’t gone towards improving the quality of our education, but to larger football stadiums, modern performing arts centers, and recruitment of famous professors who the majority of students will never take a class from.

  • Basically, students are paying more in tuition without receiving any of the benefits, making their degree no better than the ones earned by a graduate in the 80s. From this analysis, it’s easy to see why Arends thinks US colleges are a rip off.
WHY WE SHOULD CARE
  • Because we believe in affordable higher education for our generation.
Our Time Opinion
We believe colleges have a larger responsibility to make learning more accessible.
 
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Student loans being given away like free cookies -> No lack of demand & funding -> Colleges: Lets keep raising prices (really, from their point of view, why wouldn't they?)

Anything more than 5k /year for undergrad and 10k€-15k€ for a Masters (at a top school!) is overpaying
 

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THE FACTS
  • According to Brett Arends, MarketWatch columnist, while current debate around college costs encompasses the price of student loans and increasing Pell Grants, what we should really be talking about is the actual costs of tuition.

  • Recent graduates have paid three times as much for a 4 year degree as someone who graduated 30 years ago. The increase in tuition hasn’t gone towards improving the quality of our education, but to larger football stadiums, modern performing arts centers, and recruitment of famous professors who the majority of students will never take a class from.

  • Basically, students are paying more in tuition without receiving any of the benefits, making their degree no better than the ones earned by a graduate in the 80s. From this analysis, it’s easy to see why Arends thinks US colleges are a rip off.
WHY WE SHOULD CARE
  • Because we believe in affordable higher education for our generation.
Our Time Opinion
We believe colleges have a larger responsibility to make learning more accessible.

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Yep they don't want the majority to be successful. They want every one to be indentured servants everyone to be in debt. Same reason they teach bullshit that doesn't matter in high school and not stuff like finances and how the real world works. Wanna keep us down and dumb. There's a lot of real truth out there that people aren't ready to here
 
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Aside from becoming social and learning how to make real friends with people...college is literally useless. Regardless of your degree everything you learned is old news within 18 months. Most colleges say your degree from them will get you in virtually anywhere, but that's a blatant lie. BS degrees are now equivalent to an 80's HS degree with the new push being towards staying longer for your masters/grad school. Worst part is, society virtually forces you into college.
 
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Everywhere you see readily available loans, you see highly inflated prices: college, medical bills, real estate.

If you look at who "owns" the universities and the hospitals, you'll find they're the same organizations in many cases.

A good example is the University of Texas Medical System. Look up the chancellor and read about his positions on the New York University system too (and how he's a New York attorney from a family that has a Forbes billionaire profile). Then go look at salaries of college presidents, look at the university endowment funds and investments (complete with a corporation that invests on behalf of the university and asset managers).

It's a very strange system.

The conspiracy is how the well-connected and politically-connected extract taxpayer dollars and student debt to make themselves very rich.
 

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What's the conspiracy?

Yes, it is overpriced.

Education serves a collective good, not an individual good. The idea is "let's condition the middle and upper middle class to serve as office workers for businesses. The ones who can't get in will work menial labor jobs, the ones who do get in will work office jobs filing paperwork at the corporate office, and the ones who say 'F*ck this shit I'm out' will run the companies".

It's not meant to maximize the individual benefit for Sally, Jeff, or you.

That's the responsibility of the individual, you. Expect everyone else to worry about their own benefit, not yours.
 
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