"For those touting European systems, as pointed out in this thread, those are often no frills and better schools are highly competitive. We have no frills community colleges at low costs and even free in some states and students don’t want to attend them. We have combined a sense of entitlement and caviar taste.
What do you mean I can’t afford NYU or UCLA OOS? That’s not fair!"
Literally this. Only ONCE have I seen a student complain that they couldn’t afford college, and then the college they cited was a CC. ONCE. All the rest have been students who complain that they can’t move across the country and afford Berkeley.