tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9279394.post7381611357253642231..comments2023-10-06T08:53:14.731-04:00Comments on Eternal vigilance: What is the economic value of a college degree?Ricketsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02579799843541826447noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9279394.post-36460810780230875162011-11-20T22:04:15.667-05:002011-11-20T22:04:15.667-05:00In this case, I'm just trying to look at wheth...In this case, I'm just trying to look at whether/how the university system divides the haves from the have-nots. The existing system attempts to be leveling -- they charge students according to their ability to pay (or more accurately, their parent's ability to pay). The sad thing is that, as with taxes, clever lawyers/accountants can effectively game the system.<br /><br />If we currently have a glut of college graduates, then any argument for increasing access to college should focus on issues other than economic mobility/equality, because a college education is not clearly the path to economic mobility.<br /><br />As for the "generation of young people who think they deserve better" -- didn't we have that in the 60's. I don't see that as a necessarily egalitarian development, since that sense of entitlement can also lead to imperialism and other forms of supremacist identity politics.Ricketsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02579799843541826447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9279394.post-90085852472776155562011-11-20T19:39:10.315-05:002011-11-20T19:39:10.315-05:00Everyone knows there's a glut of college gradu...Everyone knows there's a glut of college graduates, but so what? I see it as a positive development. I'm in favor of anything that moves the public opinion needle to the left, or even stimulates dissatisfaction with the status quo, and the appearance of a generation of young people who think they deserve better (justifiably or not) is something I've been waiting for for most of my life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com