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I agree that an education is a good investment.Um, in the OP it said she goes to Columbia. Can you read?So going to a school that is in the top 25 for graduate salary statistics is a bad investment?
One has to wonder if you guys think only rich people should get a Ivy League education, and have a better chance at earning a larger income.
My real point is, the only reason most have a problem with this person is they are a college student. If it was a tea party member with a home mortgage it would be a different story.
Wasn't it the tea party, and the right that made a big deal about the bail outs?
Did they go to one of those 25 schools? Does everyone who goes to those schools get top salary?
The problem here is the idea that education is an investment, it isn't, it is a foundation. Investments produce returns, hopefully, because other people do the work. An education gives you what you need to succeed, but you still have to do the work.
Investments produce returns,
Your words.IN the last two days you haven't impressed me. Wouldn't a higher salary, and a chance of that be producing a return? If one has a bachelors or masters they will most likely earn more in their life time than a person who just went to high school. I would say that was a return on an investment.
Just because this girl went to an ivy league school, and is getting a graduate school she is more likely to earn more money, and find a job once she graduates. But hey it isn't a good investment according to you, it is just a good foundation.![]()
It is not nearly as good of an investment as it used to be (and that is academia's doing for dumbing down BS/BA degrees).
So, what if I took a loan out to invest in some start-up company? If I whine when it's hard to pay it back, I should be slapped.
No difference.