stock here: sent to me a while back from the Cuttlefish, just dug out of email today. The comments are spot on and hilarious in an Epic Doomsday type of way.
My children already decided to never have kids. I don’t blame them.
I’m 40 and work at a grocery store with tons of 20 year olds, they tell me they can’t afford college and worried it’s even worth it
“Have more kids so we don’t have to lower prices” is what I got out of this conversation.
I didn’t have any kids because I was too busy trying to pay off my student loan.
Colleges have dis-invited most citizens and they’re providing extremely expensive and essentially worthless degrees.
Did the mounting college debt over the last 30 years stir a lifestyle change that negatively impacts the American colleges? Oh no.
Completely glossing over the question about whether college is actually worth the cost if one cannot live or earn an income after university
Within 30 miles of me, two small universities are closing this year and another is on life support.
Hard for animals to breed when stressed.
Less people to exploits sounds rough to the greedy! The USA is a giant business and forgets that some aspects of it need to be serving the population rather than fvuking them.
Oh, poor universities, there are so few teenagers to get them hooked on students loans
“right around the 2008 financial crisis…” gee i wonder why. Bankers really tanked america’s trajectory for the next 50 years and none of them went to jail.
Can’t feel sorry when these colleges are now charging $80,000 to $90,000 a year for a Degree that will land you a job that pays less than one year of tuition
When everything is all about money this is what happens. My parents and grandparents never had these pressures, now its crushing.
The ahh… When u dug ur own grave then suddenly cry why m in the grave moment.
Cry me a river. Universities got turned into just another way to extract money from the middle and lower classes.
I want to introduce the phrase “killing the golden goose. ” ask your granddad what it means. He’ll know.
I’m pretty sure there are plenty of teens, if you actually helped them financially, instead of scaring them off with huge debt, and gave them a chance. No? Okay, well, don’t complain then.
Not only is America running out of teenagers headed towards college, we may also be running out of foreign students wanting to come here for an education.
The prices are keeping enrollment down.
We didn’t just have a 2008 financial crisis. We had a continuous downward spiral from from 2003!
Life is literally pay to win… nobody wants to bring life into that.
All they care about is MONEY
College tuition in this country has reached a ridiculous level. In the 80s I paid $50 a quarter credit. Now it is $406 for in state tuition. And when you graduate from college the low wages make it difficult to live let alone have children or pay for college.
Universities MUST reduce the cost. It is simply too high. Cut the administrative overhead, cut the massive spend on food, cut the luxury housing, and if you have to cut the low attendance degrees. We need to stop pretending like families have infinite money to spend on higher education.
“how can i better get mine” this lady absolutely has the boomer mentality that helped to create this problem at timestamp 5:00
The teenagers who don’t exist have parents who made the decision of not having them because the world is crap.
Recently there was another video about how university graduates struggle to find a job!!! And be financially stable and pay off loan .. so what’s the problem with “less students ”? Even they can’t find a normal job
OMG who will they saddle with crippling debt now?!?!?
What can we expect from a system of charging the American citizen for more while offering them not merely less, but considerable debt as a way of life? They cannot afford children. Break your arm in the States and you have to sell the other one to pay for the broken one.
Why are colleges over 50k a year is something that needs to be addressed along with cost of living….
Lower numbers of youth – started happening in South Korea 10 years ago. Schools and universities are closing.
I bought into the hype of go to uni and get a good job but the reality is even with a degree jobs don’t pay a living wage and managers treat you like absolute garbage. Unless you have a career you are passionate about uni isn’t worth it.
I see young couples walking, pushing a baby carriage with a puppy inside instead of a baby.
1:01 this is ALL they care about. Who will wipe their butts when they’re older
My friend is in nursing school. She’s in her 40s and this is the time she could afford to go back. At a community college, she’s had to pay for a semester of extra curriculars just to have enough “points” to get into the nursing program, even though she passed all prerequisites with A’s. The highest grades in her class. Points =dollars spent. Because she hadn’t spend enough on classes, she didn’t qualify (they never said that, but classes cost money and that’show you get points). After getting into the program, she had to pay $500 for a DIGITAL textbook. You can’t rent it. You are basically paying for an access code. The world got too greedy. We can’t afford to live like our parents did. They can no longer afford to be alive. Social security isn’t a guarantee for us. What’s the incentive when the rich just keep trying to figure out how to line their pockets? We are the product. If they cared at all they would pay their fair share of taxes and look into ways to help more people access their services. They can’t take all that money to their graves.