The areas that have gone up in cost the most are those where demand is essentially inelastic

indeed its that simple but so is the lot bubble

given the off shore onslaught and the
resultant flight to the safety of more skiller heights

mayhaps
a bubble in sheep skins
like once tulip bulbs got ???

more
on higher ed costs

its the market stupid
or what amounts
to a poorly simulated market

like private hospitals
pro-test-ant sects
and bar rooms
we got
too many
private colleges

their tuitions are
a function of
contrived public credit system
that allows too much lending
and too little comnpetition

students are paying for
the nut of ten thousand
chronically over capacity
and under enrolled
private higher ed institutions

putting aside
the hideously
rigged scholarship set up

hell
far as i'm concerned

the pri col cartel lobby complex
needs a joe and june three wide
bust in the mouth

free tuition at state schools is hardly the answer
though it at least could drive the pri cols under

even state school subsidy is a sick joke
played on mr and mrs three wides wallet

let em all i mean all the two and four year gigs
pri sec and pub sec
contend with each other

examples

make all credits at accredited insitutions
cross countable toward degrees anywhere
make half your credits earned here shit illegal

make tenure contracts illegal

make professional school
pre qualifications minimal not maximal

at least in the good old days
medical school students could come
straight from high school

turn the contest for students
as much as possible
into a free fire zone

do that
and watch the cost efficiency rise

while by in large
"the products " offered
may well degrade
and at best
i'm sure they'll remain
just as useless
job use wise
as ever

but
at least if they start competing on price
the total signaling costs
of our domestic
better job filtering system
will be lower