ravi wrote:" My guess is that the OP (to extend the term) meant that bit to counter the usual liberal belief that a college education will somehow make things better for all. The idea that if only we could get everyone a degree then all will be well, which can motivate calls for free college education.
DH] All will be well? Of course not. But it can't hurt.
Why do you think the bourgeoisie wants to make it expensive? Doug
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What evidence is there that " the bourgeoisie" (as a class) care much either way. They care about social spending. They care abut anything that raises the increases the bargaining power of workers. They care about a stable world in which there are no wild-card nations in control of vital resources (e.g. oil). But is see no evidence of any unified capitalist concert about the price of college as such. Some capitalists obviously do: those testing firms that do both the testing and the grading for various vicious policies being introduced into college training. They make money. But no capitalist concern in the abstract.
Carrol