re: #219 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

make college cheap and widely available, have a well educated and prosperous population. allow college to be too expensive for most people, have a poorly educated, not very well off native born population, and lots of immigration from places where it’s cheap and easy to get educated

I think short shrift is given to this part. I don’t know about other states but in MA all public employee salaries are publicly available. If you check the database for 2019 the top 50 salaries in the state all belong to UMass employees except for the states chief medical examiner. The Umass system is where retiring legislators go for 3 years to boost their state pension. There is no good reason for tuition and costs to be rising so much faster than inflation.