We have much less of those things.
Not everyone needs them. The working poor need them. People who will be in dire straights if they put their kids through school need them. the BA is the new HS diploma.
Why do you get to decide who gets to complain?
We all got to pay rent and buy food and have clothing and drive a car (generally speaking). We live in a capitalist society, with all of our needs having to be traded for dollars. To get dollars we need jobs. Increasingly, to get a job that will support you, you need a BA.
My students who have children can’t “cut corners” on their children’s care. They shouldn’t be having to decide between good food and electricity/heat. That’s many of my student’s reality, in a public university with a large working class population. They are busting their asses with scholarships and loans, often working full time, taking care of family (their children, or sometimes, their parents), trying to do exactly what they are told they need to do - go to school, make something of themselves, so they can do better than their parents did. It’s turned out to be a lie, often times. These are not bad kids. They are good kids, doing what they are told they should be doing. And people like you still scoff at them. it’s heartbreaking.
