Re:Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal
by danielweber on Friday August 16, 2013 @02:08PM
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I don't think the boomers ruined this one, although they were in the right place at the right time to blame them.
When 1) employers are allowed to discriminate against the non-college educated, 2) going to college becomes the default instead of the exception, and 3) there is no downward price pressure on educational costs, I think the results are inevitable.
Here is something really shocking we could do: make education something that most employers are not allowed to consider, like marital status or a handful of other things. (They mostly cannot consider IQ, because of Griggs v Duke, but they can use your degree, which uses an IQ test (the SAT) to decide if you get in.)
Re:Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal
by fnordfnordfnord on Friday August 16, 2013 @02:32PM
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>I don't think the boomers ruined this one, although they were in the right place at the right time to blame them.
Who then? Boomers have had all of the political power for the last thirty years. They will probably hold it for another decade.
When they went to college it was inexpensive enough to work your way through and most of the faculty was full time moderately paid professors. Now tuition at many places is more than the national median household income, and the most of the faculty is made up of very poorly paid adjutants with a thin gerontocracy layer of tenured professors taking up most of the faculty salary pie. And they're all loaded to the gills with deanlets and deanlings.