Another aspect that's troubling is the new, revisionist notion that nobody could have known that so many degrees would be worthless (in market terms) and that k

Another aspect that's troubling is the new, revisionist notion that nobody could have known that so many degrees would be worthless (in market terms) and that kids were tricked into studying worthless (in market terms) subjects without realizing they'd be worthless (in market terms). This is maddening nonsense. I started college in 1999. Jokes about English majors asking if you want fries with that were mainstream when I was in grade school. There isn't a single person who has attended college in the last 40 years who didn't have enough information available to make better decisions (in market terms) about what to study. Kids will be kids and they'll make bad decisions. Fine. But there's nothing new here (except that, obviously, the consequences of those bad decisions get larger as costs rise).