This line of thinking was radical heresy pre-2009/occupy wall street. If older millenials made the argument to any parent/teacher/elder that college was an exp

This line of thinking was radical heresy pre-2009/occupy wall street. If older millenials made the argument to any parent/teacher/elder that college was an expensive boondoggle, the response would be something along the lines of "you will wind up dead or in jail". And if one had a strong enough self-confidence to not buy the prophesies of manacled destitution, there was the social side of the con to catch them. The social and hedonistic enticements. That longed for bacchanal known as the college experience, was always higher eds backup plan to lure younglings like the pied piper of hamelin into insurmountable debt. That's why they spend so much turning colleges into country clubs for the youth. There is no legitimate reason pure education needs to cost so much. Like the elves, dwarves and humans of middle earth, so we were, all of us, deceived. All that said. I loved college, it just did nothing for me economically. After I graduated and it was 2009, I would have rather had all the tuition money as seed cash for bootstrapping a career.