> ... education were vastly more accessible than they are today. Diplomas were more accessible. Education has never been cheaper. This isn't an attack on your

> ... education were vastly more accessible than they are today. Diplomas were more accessible. Education has never been cheaper. This isn't an attack on your point, since what people really want are the diplomas (and the comfy middle-class jobs they led to), I'm just pointing out that everything that runs on information transfer[1] is incomparably cheaper in 2020 than in 1980. The college tuition problem isn't an economics of information transfer problem, it's an economics of status transfer problem. [1] All of which you dismiss as "hollow digital toys" somewhat unfairly I feel, but I don't actually know enough to have an informed opinion on 1980 vs 2020, so I won't get into it.