| Lawlight said:
The 18-35 are fine. If they chose to do more than liberal arts/social sciences degrees and spend their time on social media. |
The cost of education significantly increased over the past twenty years. So, making the same good or bad decisions do have very different consequences for people.
For example, my university tuition in 1996 was $2K/semester, when I attended in 2006 it was $4K/semester, and now in 2016 it is $6K/semester. Given most people take 8 semesters that means same degree went from $16K to $32K to $48K to achieve. This isn't unusual as national average increase over past twenty years is a 179% increase.
I agree to an extent that we may need a generation that rethinks university and less people go as cost/benefit has changed so much from a generation ago and those that go have a good idea what degree and field they want in. May not be bad for many 18 year olds to spend some time working to build up a bit of money and learn more about what they want to do in life before comitting to higher education.
