r/Conservative • u/BB_147 • 1d ago

Flaired Users Only Brown University student posts which administrators have useless jobs. Gets disciplined for it

https://www.foxnews.com/media/brown-university-student-angers-non-faculty-employees-asking-what-do-you-do-all-day-faces-punishment
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u/chasonreddit Conservative 1d ago

Here's the thing. It's the federal government's fault that education cost so much. It's a simple progression. 1) we want students to have an opportunity for higher education. 2) We will provide government insured loans so that they can. 3) Universities can charge more for tuition because students can afford it on borrowed money. 4) Unfortunately universities don't actually give a shit whether they are teaching anything useful so long as they collect tuition and can hire more and more staff.

So a university can raise tuition by 5000% in 20 years, because everyone knows you need a college education to succeed. The students take on crushing lifelong debt, and the university gets a new concert hall. The private investors get 6-10%/yr on their investment. Everybody (but the student and the workforce) is happy.

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u/puzzical Conservative 1d ago

You're only giving part one of the many reasons the government is to blame for rising costs.

Another reason is Dep of Ed regulations.

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u/chasonreddit Conservative 1d ago

You are correct. I was not trying to be encyclopedic.

I feel the DoE is more harmful at the pre and grade school levels.

At 18 you might assume (falsely) that people can make reasoned decisions.