Originally Posted by chay
I find it odd that a country that prides itself on the American Dream is in a situation where tuition costs are increasing far faster than inflation. In a global economy you need to have the best and brightest have access to a higher education, not just the subset that can afford it or can navigate the seemingly complex process to obtain a scholarship. Having people not be able to access education because of the cost or having them graduation 10's of thousands of dollars in debt completely goes against what I would think of as the American Dream.

It's pretty much standard-issue Americana.

We're going through a gilded-age period again.

We didn't like the entire European socialist thing, so we scrapped it.

We didn't scrap all of it, so we're kind of in a welfare state-gilded age combo right now where we give the option of debt bondage to our youth if they want it.