You seem to be railing against a straw man - the article is not your typical sob story about people who have degrees and can't find jobs. In fact, the author a

You seem to be railing against a straw man - the article is not your typical sob story about people who have degrees and can't find jobs. In fact, the author at no point in the article brings up anyone who fits that mold: degreed but can't find a job. Can we, like, talk about the topic of the article instead of making up straw men (like your fictional Art History major) to attack? It does no good except to stroke the already massive egos of everyone here. What the article does actually talk about is that, for a range of things such as housing and education, the cost has far, far outpaced inflation (or income growth), and is considerably harder to afford for this generation than the last, and presents numeric evidence of this. This is about the fact that, as a relation to income, college has become much more expensive, to the point where loans are unavoidable, where they could be realistically worked off before with part-time jobs. To be fair, Canadians still have vastly more affordable tuition than most Americans. This is about the fact that, beyond college, home ownership is a pipe dream - housing prices as a multiple of income has jumped from 1.6 up through to a national average of 6. For major Canadian cities, the multiple drifts up to 8-9. This is about stagnant wages in the face of rapidly rising everything. So even for our fictional Hacker News hero - the one who got a "useful" degree, the one who has figured out the job market, the one that freely scoffs in the face of pathetic liberal arts Untermensch, even he faces slim to nil odds of ever owning a home, massive debt out of college, etc etc. Growing the hell up doesn't seem to help his case.