Re:The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined
by rayiner on Saturday August 25, 2018 @08:25PM
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Making unsupported assertions can’t make them come true. College should controversial. College, as it exists today, entails large expense and opportunity cost. We became a very advanced society sending only a small percentage of people to college. There is little reason to think tripling the proportion of people who go to college will improve the fundamentals of the economy.
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Re:The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined
by s3m4j on Saturday August 25, 2018 @08:30PM
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Every piece of historic evidence tends to prove that higher education for an ever growing part of the population seem to correlate with better living standards.
Re:The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined
by rayiner on Saturday August 25, 2018 @08:38PM
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In societies with large surpluses, young people can afford to waste years of their life on unproductive endeavours. That’s correlation not causation. It’s like lifestyle diseases. Nobody would encourage you to be sedentary, even though that’s correlated with higher living standards too.
Re:The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined
by darkerside on Saturday August 25, 2018 @08:53PM
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That doesn't necessarily have any bearing on cause and effect. It seems trivially obvious that, as living standards improve and people have higher levels of disposable income, we would invest it in educating our children, possibly at extremely poor rates of return.
Re:The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined
by barry-cotter on Sunday August 26, 2018 @08:51AM
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Every piece of historic evidence tends to prove that mobile phone usage for an ever growing part of the population seems to correlate with better living standards.
Re:The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined
by toast_coder on Sunday August 26, 2018 @10:02AM
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Except for the last 30 years...