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Podcast: PRay TeLL, Dr. Hash
Episode: 160 Prestige Universities
Description: In topsy-turvy, status-conscious America, a degree in B-B stacking from Yale has more cachet than an Engineering degree from Podunk University, and people are often hired simply because they are Ivy League graduates. This is discrimination at its most insidious, and a prime reason why higher education is failing America. It's also the major indication of America's de facto Class system: the elite prestige schools are reserved for the Nouveau Aristocracy with just a smidgen of integration of the lower classes for cover.
Lavish campuses, high tuition, and huge undergraduate debt loads have become the norm, and...