{"id":917,"date":"2012-07-01T00:18:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T05:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=917"},"modified":"2012-07-01T00:20:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T05:20:08","slug":"n1-death-by-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"n+1: Death by Degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Of course, one man\u2019s burden is another man\u2019s opportunity. Student debt in the United States now exceeds $1 trillion. Like cigarette duties or state lotteries, debt-financed accreditation functions as a tax on the poor. But whereas sin taxes at least subsidize social spending, the \u201cgraduation tax\u201d is doubly regressive, transferring funds from the young and poor to the old and affluent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/death-by-degrees\">n+1: Death by Degrees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the credentialism compulsion seeps down the socioeconomic ladder, universities jack up fees and taxi drivers hire $200-an-hour SAT tutors for their children. The collective impact may be ruinous, but for individuals the outlays seem justified. As a consequence, college tuitions are nowhere near their limit; as long as access to the workforce is controlled by the bachelor\u2019s degree, students will pay more and more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, one man\u2019s burden is another man\u2019s opportunity. Student debt in the United States now exceeds $1 trillion. Like cigarette duties or state lotteries, debt-financed accreditation functions as a tax on the poor. But whereas sin taxes at least &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=917\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}