Re:Big Cities No Longer Deliver for Low-Skill Workers
by rsync on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @11:28AM
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>> "College education was something only upper class folks could receive ... due to it's expense."
> "This is not factually correct - tuition at non-state schools increased 10X in the last 30 years, way ahead of the pace of inflation."
You are only considering the monetary cost of college which has, indeed, skyrocketed.
However a more significant cost in the era you are both speaking of was the cost of not working immediately after high school - especially when that same social class very likely had started a family, or had a family they were coming from that needed support.
People coming from a high SES background could afford four years of non-earning, etc.
> "This is not factually correct - tuition at non-state schools increased 10X in the last 30 years, way ahead of the pace of inflation."
You are only considering the monetary cost of college which has, indeed, skyrocketed.
However a more significant cost in the era you are both speaking of was the cost of not working immediately after high school - especially when that same social class very likely had started a family, or had a family they were coming from that needed support.
People coming from a high SES background could afford four years of non-earning, etc.