Dumb Trump supporters raise mortgage rates, reduce money for Social Security and Medicare, and Make America A Laughing Stock.

      • samus7070@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        You should cite some of the other reasons rather than just saying they exist. For example administrative staffing costs have risen dramatically over the last few decades. The upper management of universities now make CEO like wages. Universities are competing on amenities more than they are academics. Nice housing and recreational complexes are the norm while full time professors are all being replaced by adjuncts who aren’t paid a living wage. The economics are broken.

        • Domriso@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          While correct, the real problem came when they made banks unable to refuse college loans. Suddenly, colleges could set whatever price they wanted, and the banks had to agree. That skyrocketed costs and directly led to the current situation.

          Of course, it really started even further back than that when we allowed education to be privately funded rather than a public good.

            • hoodatninja@kbin.social
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              1 year ago

              We don’t bat an eye at having tax-funded libraries (well the GOP is starting to…) because we have internalized as a society that they’re a good thing. I have never understood why we can’t do the same with schools.

      • snooggums@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        If Republicans didn’t spend the majority of their energy on destroying anything publicly funded I would stop blaming them first for destroying everything publicly funded.