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 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.)