[Telepathic Intruder]

"the price of college, for example, which was much cheaper for older generations"

It's because they didn't feel the need to include a bunch of liberal arts crap in their curriculum. You want to be an actor? Go to acting school. Don't make everyone who doesn't want to be an actor take acting classes.

[9YearLurker]

Huh? Liberal arts classes aren’t what has made college expensive. It is the layers and layers and layers of bureaucracy and crazy construction of luxury buildings that have swelled to satisfy ever-more students ever-less prepared for college, bureaucratic mandates and competitive amenities in a taxpayers-are-subsidizing-it-anyway world.