Back in the 70s, I attended a small conservative university. It was cheaper to send a kid to college than it was to keep him home. Courses were $3/hr. Dorms and meal plans were very inexpensive. Get a 10/hr a week min. wage job on campus you and you were doing great.
Gas was 30 cents and Tues. was dollar movie nights. No one heard of AIDS. People spoke face to face without worrying about their social media likes from total strangers. There was no pandemic with the government trying to kill you. Life was good.
Once government decided to ‘help’ with a college education three things happened.
1. The quality of Professors went down - waaaaay down.
2. Costs went sky-high.
3. Colleges and Government Bureaucrats became a self-serving tag team.
Great postm