“Big Education” makes “Big Oil” look like choir boys by comparison.
400 % inflation since 1980?
Yes it does.
Professors constantly demand more pay at the same time they stir student anger at rising costs all the while writing the very wildly overpriced textbooks they deem to be required for their courses.
Meanwhile K thru 12th grade teachers focus like a laser on credentials that require a steady diet of college courses, all the while they further dumb down the students to lead them into the feedback loop.
We’re all very proud of my niece for dropping out of college and going to work, not because she couldn’t handle the work but because she realized that she was being led into slavery.