To the US Academy, graduates» blood is on your hands — yours
and all your minions», in their infinitely variable guises (the loan officers
and administrators, high school advisors who
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faculty and administrators who ply with spoken promises of a far better tomorrow post-graduation,
and the online «experts» who keep parroting the hackneyed, specious line that college grads earn more (that, I'm confident, is an illusion of the social backgrounds of those who're employed, as the immensely wealthy father of a good friend of mine pointed out when he recently commented when I shared with him about the job insecurity - college degree paradox that he'd simply «manage my children's trust funds
and get them placed at friends» companies.»