Do you believe that Princeton, Harvard and Yale are fighting for their survival?

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73. What?

I like bullet points, so I'll use them.

1. The named schools are not in danger of going out of business. More's the pity, since their increasingly incompetent alums continue to dominate this country. If those schools were worth a damn, the world would be in better shape.

2. If the idea is to get rid of for-profit schools, it's an odd way to do it. Community colleges don't offer bachelor's degrees.

3. The trades are not in danger of extinction. The much-decried skills gap is a myth. The sector with the greatest need to fill positions is retail. If a degree is ever required for a retail job, that will be the final, unassailable sign that our society has incurably ossified and is in imminent danger of decline.*

4. I have no idea how you think universities are in any danger whatsoever. As long as the federal loan and corporate donation teats are flowing, they will be fine. It makes no sense to claim they're in danger when their primary funding sources are intact.

5. Student loan debt is simply not taken seriously by those in power because they haven't seen a tuition bill in decades, nor had to make payments while making squat. Anyone who hasn't seen one in the last ten years is completely unqualified to speak on the issue.

*Required means that a checklist item needs to be marked. It doesn't mean it's actually needed, it just means the employer decided to add another hurdle to the pool of job seekers. It's like the vast majority of degrees today that require, without needing, a degree of some sort.