FWIW at University I was paid $27/week to be alive plus $300/term. Annual fees were $99. Today people getting the same degrees end up with student debts of up to $100K.
Truly we are miserable swines who pull up the ladder behind us. For the most part you want these students getting qualified so you don't have to import furriner ratbags, so why not offer a bond or a release schedule for good service done at home rather than pursuing $ or lifestyle abroad? They're still worse off than we ever were with "everybody" now opposed to inflation that would erode their debt at the same rate it did ours.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
