I.m not saying there’s an equivalence between student loans and police killings
Free college increases inequality. We all think about the poor kid who uses college to reach the middle class who would benefit from free college.
The reality is such situation is rare, and people from truly poor and working class families who are college material have a lot of cheap college options already between the GI Bill, private scholarships, Pell Grants, community college + scholarship to cheap state school. But they mostly don’t go to college at all because their friends and family didn’t, and they do not enjoy school enough to want to continue it further.
The main impact of free college would be upper middle class people who graduate with 50-100k in debt and then earn top 10 or 20% incomes would be 50-100k richer when they graduate (or their parents would have another 50-100k).[/quote]
i guess im getting pretty cheap, but every 18 to 22 year old is broke.
why does society expect me to pay for my adult kids? seriously. These arent kids. these are adults.
it was different when the numbers werent so large, maybe, like if I had to cough up a few extra bucks.
i could earn a years tuition at a state univ over the summer in 1981
now…
it’s not like a little extra help. 100-300k is actual money.
so you see bumperstickers like, my kid and all my money go to stanford univ.
in general, we tell people, your parents money is not your money. dont count on it, dont expect anything, if they want to help you they will, but it’s theirs not yours.
yet with college, that goes out the window. kids and society expect you to pay.
your wealth is their wealth for aid purposes, and really just an expectation ofsupport.
why?
yeah, if college were free, the middle class kid will be richer if he got free college in a strictly accounting way.
but
I dont really think of being debt-free as being “richer”. are kids really “rich” if they get out of school with no debt?
is a homeless guy with 38 cents richer than a guy 300k in the hole with credit cards maxed out and a benz in his driveway?
just that statement makes me want to barf a little.
yeah i get that one has more potential than the other…
but i think it’s just that everyone at least start at zero. that seems reasonable. debt feels awful.
having been hobbled with 6 figure debt, with a supposedly lucrative degree, i still found it difficult to make it, i dont want my kdis in debt, i dont want to pay, i dont like the system, and it doesnt seem very fair overall.
IN other news, im cranky, frustrated, tired, i feel old, I’m losing my hair, everything seems like bullshit, i’m sick of the state of the union and im distressed about the state of the world, i dont think things are going to be ok, I need a haircut and I’m scared to be near other people.
also im completely full of shit because my parents paid cash to send me to an ivy league college.
but they didnt pay 4 law school…so maybe im just half full of shit?
i thnk Im going to put in my advance directive that if i
start watching fox news, I want all life support measures including food and water and oxygen, withheld from me. let me die. hopefully i pull out of this funk.
