Money is printed out of thin air or borrowed in the trillions to fund all sorts of things handed out to individuals (not "general welfare" - as prescribed, but specific/individual welfare) such as these so-called Pell grants (which not only artificially expand the higher education industry and rope a whole bunch of people into it that don't belong into it, but raise the price of it astronomically by feeding non-market/non-real money into it)
The nearly hyper rates of inflation resulting from printing fake money (for these and all sorts of other pursuits) is the tax that I pay on things such as when I'm trying to buy the cheapest chicken, the cheapest bologna, and the soy ground beef that I'm having to buy these days. My children and grandchildren will suffer a lot more, because (as I'll probably be dead in ten years or less), my children had to spend over $400,000 on a house that to me looks like a house that should cost half that much, and now they're telling me that houses like theirs are priced at a million bucks (though what my children aren't realizing is that people aren't buying them). Where are their kids going to find the money to buy a place like that (or buy the stuff that they need to have every day) when the government keeps printing and handing out all this money to all of us (regardless of in control party), fooling the not analytical into thinking that they (the federal government) is being benevolent, while - in reality - they're stealing from all of us, and pricing all the consumer goods (that we need daily) out of reach. In my lifetime, the government has already managed to do this with medicine and medical care.
Just to review, $150 a semester for a higher quality education when Imatriculated in the mid-1970s (perhaps $800 or so a semester - adjusted for 2025 inflation... and no AI term papers nor the Arbiter of TRVTH, Google ). Now: $8,500 a semester for way fancier buildings/facilities and (grade inflation) a lower quality of education.
info for those who are going to six-figure debt to study tuba orchestral excerpts
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Re: info for those who are going to six-figure debt to study tuba orchestral excerpts
yeah...
"Here's free money to go somewhere to spend what could have been four really productive years (out of your very limited years life) to gain knowledge about which no one values monetarily." (Those are the types of interests that we pursue on our own, during our leisure time - when we earn enough to have leisure time.)
I would define "a DMA university adjunct who is freelancing and teaching a few high school students as well, in addition to working at Starbucks at night, and spending $XXXX/year auditioning for per-service orchestra positions" as UNDER-employed.
"Here's free money to go somewhere to spend what could have been four really productive years (out of your very limited years life) to gain knowledge about which no one values monetarily." (Those are the types of interests that we pursue on our own, during our leisure time - when we earn enough to have leisure time.)
I would define "a DMA university adjunct who is freelancing and teaching a few high school students as well, in addition to working at Starbucks at night, and spending $XXXX/year auditioning for per-service orchestra positions" as UNDER-employed.