Being Charitable Is at the Heart of Progressivism

[Jedi Guy]

7. We're going to end up back where we were at the beginning of the 20th century.

It's getting to the point where the cost of a college education is simply out of reach for a lot of people unless they can get a scholarship or grant. When I started at University of Arizona in 1999, in-state tuition and fees worked out to $1200 a semester. Not exactly pocket change, but affordable. These days in-state tuition and fees comes out to about $6300 a semester. So assuming you finish in four years (which is by no means guaranteed) you're looking at $50000 just to sit in the classroom. Add several hundred to a couple thousand dollars a semester for books, and room and board, and it's ruinously expensive. Out-of-state is even worse.

Unless something changes, the only people attending university will be the children of the wealthy/elite. Which, of course, is a feature rather than a bug as far as some are concerned.