• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Education went up in cost because nothing was stopping it from going up and everything else is so broken it took the place for it. Kids need therapy and they can’t get it, so schools hire therapists. Kids come into higher ed unready so schools has to hire tutors and offer basic classes. No walkability so here comes a campus bus system. Systematic racism so here comes 8 offices of diversity. A nasty combo of unlimited money and mission creep. Want to stop it? Limit the salary of all uni employees to no more than say 110k a year, stop subsidizing the NFL, and fix all the shit that isn’t working around the ages of 18-23.

    Healthcare went up because insurance companies. They are a useless middlemen.

    Cars really haven’t gone up that much.

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      8 months ago

      You left out the parallel police and court systems that can only inflict academic punishments but have greatly reduced due process rights and rights of the accused in general. To the point that they had to lose lawsuits over things like the accused being allowed to know what evidence will be brought against them or what the procedure is supposed to look like or what training those involved in conducting the procedure had on it.

      Biden’s changes to the policy actually rolled back the idea that maybe the people whose roles are analogous to prosecutor, judge and defense in a “real” court should not all be the same person, but then he basically rolled back to the Obama-era version of the policy, except where the changes were just spelling out something from a court judgement.

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      8 months ago

      Education went up in cost because nothing was stopping it from going up and everything else is so broken it took the place for it.

      Well yeah, that’s my point? Why do you think their customers are able to pay any amount? Because they’re taking government loans.

      Healthcare went up because insurance companies. They are a useless middlemen.

      How did insurance companies increase the cost of healthcare when their goal is to decrease it so they can profit more?

      Cars really haven’t gone up that much.

      New and used cars definitely haven’t gone down in price despite increased mechanization, improved shipping, etc. But yeah out of these things they have the lowest infinite free money behind them.

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        8 months ago

        Well yeah, that’s my point? Why do you think their customers are able to pay any amount? Because they’re taking government loans.

        No it is because stuff around it was broken.

        How did insurance companies increase the cost of healthcare when their goal is to decrease it so they can profit more?

        Expensive for us not for them. Given that insurance doesn’t actually payout the cost doesn’t matter to them.