Is the jig (finally) up?
Let’s hope so. It’s done immeasurable damage to the Republic.
[Update a while later]
Link added, sorry!
[Sunday-morning update]
Universities went from graduating capable middle-class workers to producing debt slaves.
— Suhr Majesty™ (@ULTRA_MAJESTY) March 13, 2025
Why?
Because the elites realized long ago that they didn’t need the middle class anymore to make money.
So they turned the liberal left women from focusing on Wall Street to focusing on…
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[Update a few minutes later]
🚨NEW: Marc Andreessen breaks down how the University scam works and how they misappropriate taxpayer money. "There is a government supported and funded cartel that doesn't allow new entrants to get access to Federal money. They must be allowed to fail." pic.twitter.com/exAT2obaBJ
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) January 27, 2025
I don’t see a link, although I already agree with the statement.
Require all colleges make their own loans to students and if a former student fails to graduate or defaults on a loan, make the college responsible for repaying any grants the student received.
That would create market clarity and incentives for colleges to produce good students and not take advantage of students. Government could still help but it puts the responsibility on colleges to do their due diligence.
Suppose you right after all Trump, Elon, Eastman, Alito and his friends, Leo, Vance, Canon, Hegseth, RFK and Stephen Miller are all products of “elite” universities .
And yes the school that touts itself as the “Harvard of the south” is Elite.
What’s your point?
A lesson in logic (for someone who has been long known to be deficient in it):
a) Elite universities have been a disaster for the Republic.
b) Elite universities occasionally produce useful people.
There is no logical inconsistency between those two statements.
Guess a stopped clock like you can be correct twice a day. Even if not for reasons you think.
You lot are misidentifying the problem. The proposed solution you endorse From VDH or Wodun’s wouldn’t solve the problem.
So enlighten us, Great Philosopher who is smarter and wiser than Victor Davis Hanson. What do you fantasize that the problem is, and how to solve it?
Oh, my solution would solve the problem. It places market signals closest to the producer. When an institution is directly responsible for their output, they will ensure their output has at least break even value.
Admittedly, this would be more beneficial to less prestigious schools because there is a massive wealth sink for the most expensive schools. Most of the students come from rich families and their graduates benefit from networking with other established rich families. But for the vast majority of people my solution would be great.
I’d go with your market signals and raise you letting companies test for ability. Government backing loans is one of the hearts of the problem. Another is that there are ways to get the knowledge now that didn’t exist centuries ago. If starting a rocket company today, I would prefer alumni of Armadillo, XCOR, Masten, and SpaceX over anything ivy league. Hands on work plus self directed study with mentors in the field is the way of the future for many fields.
Marc Andreessen also notes why school choice is problematic, the accreditors who control public schools also control private schools.
A private school may do some things better but when you state mandates you have to let boys in the girls room or include Progressive Marxist curriculum, the only option is choose to be less good at doing those things than a public school but not not do them.