[newswasboring]

I feel like these analysis don't take into account how societies change. Past performance is not entirely predictors of future gains. Especially when talking about 40 year windows. People who participate in these experiments, probably started their education in 1970s/early 80s. They were probably born in late 60s/early 70s. Can someone, with a straight face, tell me society is remotely similar today than it was then?

[linuxftw]

Of course they can tell you with a straight face, they're sociopaths. The higher education ponzi scheme needs new blood every year. The value exists solely in the fact that it's a mechanism of exclusion by those who hold degrees.

[newswasboring]

Is this just hyperbole or you actually believe this literally? I have never met an American University administrator or education economist, but from what I have read in pop science I don't think my point is lost on them. Economists, at least the ones I regularly read from, spend a lot of time fighting this kind of thing.