• @IMALlama
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    53 hours ago

    In the case of at least one school, the state was also cutting back funding.

    I would love for this chart to have two extra lines: the cost of tuition and an inflation adjusted cost of tuition. Without those numbers this chart could simply be “the school spent more while getting constant state funding and made the difference up with tuition”. That wasn’t actually the case here, but the chart doesn’t make it obvious.

    • @LovableSidekick
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      23 hours ago

      Aid has decreased while tuition has increased because the oligarchy presses government to cut everything that doesn’t benefit them personally. Society values education and knowledge. Oligarchs value well educated workers they can make money off but didn’t have to pay to educate. So they import foreign workers, saying Americans are underqualified.

      • @Duamerthrax
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        23 hours ago

        Oligarchs also value an indebted workforce.

        • @LovableSidekick
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          13 hours ago

          Exactly - people with fewer options make less trouble. The only tricky part is not knowing where the end of their rope is, like with that Mangione guy.