worstatit t1_ix8pgri wrote
Reply to comment by Dredly in The college-age population is about to crash. It will change higher education forever (Article with a focus on PA). by Sovereign2142
Er, most boomers benefitted from living wage jobs that didn't require a degree, and didn't get one. Just because you hate your parents doesn't mean they are at fault.
Dredly t1_ix8wfx1 wrote
Who do you think was in charge of the insane increase in everything college cost wise that magically started happening as soon as the Boomer generation took over?
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Tuition stayed pretty much fully aligned with inflation until the early 90's... which is exactly when boomers moved into roles of authority.
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or are you implying its purely coincidence that literally the decade where they started hitting 50 education inflation went through the roof?
worstatit t1_ix8y4gh wrote
Seems to me those in charge would have been well over 50, as they are today. Possibly tuition went up because of less demand on overbuilt infrastructure?
Manowaffle t1_ix9bjgc wrote
Politicians catered to the largest voter base at the time, the Boomers.
okinteraction4909 t1_ix9di4i wrote
And they hold their heads so high and proud and full of judgement. They fucked up a country really badly and are proud of themselves for it. They can’t understand why you can’t buy a house when you had a college education even if you spell it out for them and sit them down and show them the numbers. I sat down and drew out for my dad what his salary in 1975 as a new loan officer would translate to today and showed him what a loan officer actually makes today. His response was “then they should get a different higher paying job.”
Manowaffle t1_ix9idzc wrote
It is pretty wild. An entire generation struggling to get by and the elders just shrug and tell them to try harder.
worstatit t1_ix9cz5k wrote
And who else? Donors, then voters, get the policy attention, with little left for anyone else. Can't see why boomers would push college tuition up when they were paying for their own kids to go, though.
Manowaffle t1_ix9ht29 wrote
Not on purpose, but a side effect of the privatize everything obsession. Defunding public education, public universities, driving people out of the teaching profession, etc. And then insisting that everyone needed to go to college.
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