These articles pop up every now and then and I'm struck by how many include a similar line to "a B.A. and an M.A. in English literature, with more than $100,000

These articles pop up every now and then and I'm struck by how many include a similar line to "a B.A. and an M.A. in English literature, with more than $100,000 of debt..." If your goal is an MA in English, to be a writer, why would you go anywhere even approaching $10k a year? This notion that you must attend an expensive school is a huge fallacy that people need to understand.