>Except that someone still has to pay for it, and unless the cost of college is trivial Compared to the price, the cost is trivial. If the price wasn't hyperi

>Except that someone still has to pay for it, and unless the cost of college is trivial Compared to the price, the cost is trivial. If the price wasn't hyperinflated, it wouldn't be an issue. We see similar things in healthcare. "But someone has to pay for this $40 inhaler!" (Which only costs $1 in any other industrialized country.) What society needs to make choices about is whether the ROI of price-gouging everyone for things that we all agree that everyone needs is actually worth it. Resources spent giving rich people more money that they won't actually need is money that could have been spent on other things like healthcare, disease research, or enriching their lives in other ways. Like, for example, education.