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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One thing I have noticed in my state is that towns and cities that have a college or university are decent to excellent places to visit or live, and the few that do not have them are kind of sketch.

Even in a worse case scenario if families are just wasting their money on high end daycare with no guaranteed outcome, it could be a public good because these institutions provide many many jobs in the community. Not just faculty, but all kinds of jobs from administrators to support staff and groundskeepers and maintenance people. It has a ripple effect and seems to facilitate general economic well-being and activity. [/quote]

Okay, I hear you—so it’s “worth” 90K because it functions as a kind of trickle-down mechanism to extract money from the wealthy. We do need alternative forms of donation and taxation to stimulate the economy and help low SES.

Good to know that people are not paying 90K to gain intellectual capital.[/quote]

The people who are paying 90k are the ones who can afford it. Not MC, not even most UMC are paying that.

Did you attend college? 
If you did, it is surprising that you reduce the experience to “gaining intellectual capital.” 
For people who believe in education, whether they are paying 5k a year or 90k, college is about much more than gaining knowledge or intellectual capital.[/quote]

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