Come on! The purpose of the American university system is to keep young people out of the workforce for four years. It’s an overflow reservoir to reduce unemployment numbers.
There are other consequences as well that the Marxists are celebrating:
** It keeps young adults in a state of child-like dependence on the government making it more likely that they will vote Democrat ( Marxist really) during these years.
**It makes it financially impossible for young people to marry and form families. This extremely delayed entrance into adulthood and starting an adult career encourages sex outside the bounds of marriage and undermines the institution of marriage. ( The Marxists love this!)
** The enormous debt that they bring into marriage delays having children. Delayed childbearing increases the likelihood of infertility. ( The Marxist environmentalists cheer.)
** The longer children and young adults are under the influence of godless secularist thinking and reasoning the more likely they fully adopt a godlessly secular worldview. ( Another Marxist goal is the destruction of Judeo Christian belief.)
**The longer children and young adults are subjected to Marxist indoctrination the more likely they will be to support Marxism as an adult.
** Colleges and universities are a government jobs program for literally thousands of professors, college employees who support the system, and vendors and their employees. Few of whom will bite the Marxist government hand that feeds them when they go to vote.