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Colleges and Universities have been used as research churns, using professors, graduates and undergraduates to further influence research through a combination of tuition, good-will, and the promise of a paper after 4 years of hard work that says you can do what you spend 4 years doing. Combined with the ever-increasing costs of college education with ever-decreasing return on investment (have fun getting a job involving the gender studies doctorate (or any other vague, wishywashy, non-practical education) you got that's functionally useless)

You can get the exact same level of education online for 90% of the courses that universities offer. Trades are a different story when there's practical skills to learn however but is the exception to the norm.

Why would men spend the time going to college if it's been ensured that they're going to be in debt for the rest of their life due to the inflated ego of these institutions, thinking they can charge so much for degrees that really have no practical value. But then again, why blame the institution if there's thousands of people still lining up willingly?



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