This is not “an old man yelling at the cloud” kind of stuff. This is really happening.
“The average student has seen college as basically transactional for as long as I’ve been doing this. They go through the motions and maybe learn something along the way, but it is all in service to the only conception of the good life they can imagine: a job with middle-class wages.”
https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/the-average-college-student-today