Higher Education's New Purpose: Boost The Fertility Rate

Ring By Spring.

We have been debating the merits of higher education forever, but the debates ratcheted up in recent years relative to cost and the job market. Is it really worth it to spend $60,000/year — so potentially $240,000 total, before social expenses and the like — to end up with a $47,500 job doing “marketing assistant” work? Is the whole system kinda juiced for the universities, but broken for those attending it? And is this compounded by the fact/idea that the people who get ahead because of higher Ed would also get ahead without it?

The whole thing with higher education has been a roller coaster of takes.

But, at the same time we have these other themes going on:

1. Young women are getting more liberal.

2. Young Men are getting more conservative.

3. Both young men and women don’t want to date across ideological lines.

4. At the same time, there’s a narrative that young boys cannot even speak to young girls anymore.

Here’s some resources on people not wanting to date across the ideological spectrum:

Also, at the same time, 3 in 10 young women are identifying as LBGTQIA+.

So, it’s clearly a confusing dating landscape these days. And higher education really makes no sense when you consider a cost/benefit analysis of most universities.

But wait…