nope, there is far to much uselessness in college for it to be paid for by the rest of society. IF you want it, you should buy it
Agree, but the universities need to compete in a free market not bolstered by govt-backed lending and the private loan industry, which has enabled them to drive up pricing to the point of unaffordability, masked the true cost by tricking naïve 18 year olds into buying something they can't afford with loan funny money, and allowed the universities to become ridiculously wasteful on unnecessary administrative staff and facilities. They have no incentive to become lean and provide a good value to their students/customers.
There is no reason a 3 credit hour freshman English class with 300 other students in it with minimum wage TAs doing all the work should cost $3,000. External forces are at play preventing the market from working this out, as it naturally otherwise would.