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Actually, someone who supports decreasing the loans available for non-remunerative degrees may believe that wealth of parents is a good metric to decide who gets to be an unemployed professor manque.

And actually, since wealth of parents is already a major factor in whether a person makes irresponsible decisions that end in unemployment, that's kind of OK.

No one has a right to be a professor. That doesn't exist. The market for them has evaporated. But we have enormous institutions concealing how bad the market so they can keep cranking out graduates. They're largely doing that with government funds. US citizens should oppose that. I know I do.

If colleges lowered costs for useless degrees, they would at least be doing graduates the favor of burdening them with less debt.



>since wealth of parents is already a major factor in whether a person makes irresponsible decisions that end in unemployment

Not necessarily. Poorer parents are likely to be ill informed about the job market and what college degrees will help.

Still though, they should definitely not be saddled with debt.




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