This conversation feels a lot like health care conversations. Where the services in question are both priceless and stupidly overpriced in America.
I don’t mind the culture argument, but it seems like not many people actually got $50k worth of culture out of college.
With traveling to Italy, my guess is most people would say “the experience was worth the money”, but here I’m not hearing it so much.
Again there’s parts of my college that were kind of priceless, in that I doubt I could have learned it all by myself. Other times, I wish I had simply been gifted a house, by my parents. Then maybe I could have a spent a decade getting encultured, reading Proust or some shit instead of working shitty jobs.