Ya probably the same people who get upset at me pointing out the reason housing costs have gone up in Philly isn't because cApiTAliSm bAd, it's directly because of NIMBY zoning policies restricting new housing creation for all the people who moved here.

But that would mean acknowledging that their misguided opposition to development has directly resulted in pricing them out of the location they would like to be in.

Plenty of cheap housing in the badlands, yet these people bitching about lack of cheap housing in Fishtown or Rittenhouse don't consider living there.

In addition most people don't need to go to college, if they do it should be local community college or state schools if what they're doing isn't STEM related. Most degrees are useless debt traps, and unnecessary in the real world. Many companies and municipalities are finally rolling back degree requirements for jobs that only need a high school education and Microsoft Office training.

In addition one of the primary drivers for the increasing cost of colleges is administrative bloat and useless highly expensive infrastructure projects like luxury dorms, which basically treat colleges as an extended adolescence.

All of that can and should be cut and the funds redirected to the core function of academia, research and education. Which means firing whole departments of useless administrators and taking that money to pay grad students, researchers, and TAs.