Boy did I get your goat. Having spent a lifetime studying at, working with an funding universities research I have a very good idea how universities work.
30% of residents of Washington DC have graduate degrees. Most are worthless, but that is the requirement now for most jobs. Want a job in DC working for an agency or a contractor supporting an agency. You need an advanced degree to get a "good job." Why? Most of the work could be done by an intelligent person with a diploma from a really good old-time high school. But submit such a resume and it goes in the trash.
So you go and get a Masters in Public Administration from Georgetown and get a job in the policy shop of an agency writing policy white papers. It's a useless activity. And Trump's folks don't even read them which is why Trump is hated in DC.
But to get a $150K job in DC you need $200,000 in debt from one of these schools. That's economics for you, supply and demand. It's all a distortion of free market economics caused by public spending, an "externality" as the free market economists call it. But it's a lot of money and a real thing.
And all of this really got going after the boomers graduated from these universities and started running these universities. So, the boomers invented the modern dysfunctional university.
And yes I know Harvard was founded in 1636 etc. etc. But the Ivy League school of today is the dried up carcass of what it was 70 years ago.
You are clearly a smug self-satisfied unaware dolt incapable of even seeing, much less understanding the world of today.
Didn’t read it.