{"id":6288,"date":"2016-08-20T05:04:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T05:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/08\/20\/price-changes-1996-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-08-20T05:04:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T05:04:57","slug":"price-changes-1996-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/08\/20\/price-changes-1996-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Price Changes 1996-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graph from the American Enterprise Institute.  Commentary mine.<\/span><\/p>\n

One irony here is that the more worthless college education becomes (in the non-STEM areas at least), the more outrageously expensive it becomes, while with electronics, the use value of the gear skyrockets while  prices plunge.  <\/span><\/p>\n

In the 'higher education' sector, a trifecta of corruption and stupidity.  The federal government underwrites huge loans with no oversight; greedy and mostly useless administrators proliferate like rabbits, raising tuition and fees because of the availability of federal funds; stupid students go deep into debt to finance worthless degrees.<\/span><\/p>\n

The degrees are not only economically worthless; they are intellectual junk to boot.  Outside of the STEM areas, and the medical schools, the universities of the land have become leftist seminaries and hotbeds of political correctness.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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Graph from the American Enterprise Institute.  Commentary mine. One irony here is that the more worthless college education becomes (in the non-STEM areas at least), the more outrageously expensive it becomes, while with electronics, the use value of the gear skyrockets while  prices plunge.   In the 'higher education' sector, a trifecta of corruption and … Continue reading “Price Changes 1996-2016”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}