College should be low cost, at the very least. Or free. Or you should even get paid to go, which Denmark showed is viable. Education is an investment in the fu

College should be low cost, at the very least. Or free. Or you should even get paid to go, which Denmark showed is viable. Education is an investment in the future. It's a rising tide that lifts all boats - or it ought to be. Instead, we seem to have a networking event for the wealthy; a decades-long spirit-crushing grind for the middle-class, and a dark, dismal carrot for poor people to join the US military. Over 40 countries around the world offer free post-secondary education. But in the world's wealthiest country, we have the worlds most expensive education and the world's highest "college debt". It's a sign of how brainwashed we are that this is accepted as normal. Why aren't we moving towards free-as-standard college as a goal? Instead, we have shrieking hypocrites, apoplectic at the idea that anyone other than a bank or military contractor might get a bailout, mere months after collecting their PPP cheques.