Noam Chomsky: Modern universities designed to ‘deprive you of your freedom’

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59. I agree with a lot here except the word "designed".

The problems Chomsky is describing are very real consequences of the insane, unwarranted, way-above-inflation tuition increases we've seen over the past couple of decades.

There are likely, however, plenty of complex reasons that need to be considered before anyone leaps to the conclusion, implied by the word "designed", that some nefarious cabal behind the scenes twirled their collective mustaches and decided to infiltrate a vast network of educational institutions, reaching out with their long tentacles to raise tuition everywhere with the express goal of (bwahahahaha!) depriving students of their freedom.

I don't see the word "designed" coming from Chomsky's pen or Chompsky's lips in the text of this article, so its use may well be a gratuitous liberty taken by the author of the quoted article.