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His numbers are correct, because they never actually claimed that it was possible (on average) to put yourself through college in 1986. > In fact, I bet it was
by bhupy 6y ago
His numbers are correct, because they never actually claimed that it was possible (on average) to put yourself through college in 1986.
> In fact, I bet it wasn't actually possible to put yourself through college in 1986.
Possibly, the numbers don't claim otherwise. They just compare the median teenage wage to the net tuition of the time — across 2 different snapshots.
- quacked 6y agoAh, I see.
- xg15 6y ago> His numbers are correct, because they never actually claimed that it was possible (on average) to put yourself through college in 1986. I can't validate the numbers but that would make your claim from earlier highly misleading: > It's a little harder to pay for college on a teenage wage than it may have been 35 years ago, but not that much harder. That's technically correct in the sense that it was already almost impossible back then and only got slightly more impossible today.
- bhupy 6y agoNo, the whole point is "not much as changed". The narrative that one could pay their way through all of college is one that likely never really existed for a broad enough population outside of a brief unreproducible period after WW2 where the entire world was in ruins and the US was the sole supplier of all goods & services globally.