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Maybe worth asking at this point how the 'rich' and the 'upper-middle class' became such.

Is it because some of them went to college?

 

Seems mostly to be about a surplus of melanin and a pair of ovaries.

 

A boy can dream

 

Good.

 

They sure as hell shouldn’t be pouring the kind of cash they’re investing in athletics. Analysts? Recruiting assistants? Etc.

 

Add employer funded health insurance. The lack of coverage is a tremendous burden on families

 

That's a steaming pile of horseshit. "Went to college" is not the same as "rich people".

 

Have to say the rich-people-incur-massive-amounts-of-debt-to-go-to-college feels counterintuitive.

 

Sedition Caucus wins. Welcome to Pottersville.

 

First, there's a reason they're catered to. Some have niche focus - and, frankly, niche value - but broad popularity because they're fun. They attract student interest - and produce a lousy hit rate in the field. How many sports comm students do we need, for example? Do we need any at all? If the mission is adding years to lives - a worthy mission - let the media orgs figure out how they find and develop talent, and mobilize around making college affordable, and practical toward the end of prolonging lives.

Americans love to cite the life expectancy of other nations that are...far less romantic than we are about almost anything. It's fine to cite those stats. Extol the virtue of college! But if it has the value we say it does - if it's not the thing we quote to vaguely own anti-education conservative - then we'd figure out a way to make it work for a lot more people.

 

Our definition of rich may be different.

But of course lots of people who have two six-figure incomes have children taking out student loans. A lot of the money is tied in lifestyle.

 

Democrats were not adverse to it. They could have stopped it, and didn't. Potterville is every bit where they want to be at the moment. They must think there's something to gain.