College "for the masses" today seems to be less about getting an enriching (in any sense but financially) education and more about purchasing a competitive edge in the job market. It's half grift, half class filter. However, as you say, I can't really argue that the ticket isn't worth the price.
The solution seems to require reducing demand for livable jobs and increasing the liquidity of the labor pool, i.e. giving workers more freedom to develop themselves and allocate their labor efficiently. Universal healthcare is an absolute must for this, and today's increased productivity also ought to pay for some version of UBI. The corporate capture of America's government is not only increasing wealth inequality---it's also gutting America's economic future, and causing all these other symptoms that people tend to analyze in a vacuum.
College "for the masses" today seems to be less about getting an enriching (in any sense but financially) education and more about purchasing a competitive edge in the job market. It's half grift, half class filter. However, as you say, I can't really argue that the ticket isn't worth the price.
The solution seems to require reducing demand for livable jobs and increasing the liquidity of the labor pool, i.e. giving workers more freedom to develop themselves and allocate their labor efficiently. Universal healthcare is an absolute must for this, and today's increased productivity also ought to pay for some version of UBI. The corporate capture of America's government is not only increasing wealth inequality---it's also gutting America's economic future, and causing all these other symptoms that people tend to analyze in a vacuum.
It's probably too late.