>College was turned into a profit mill, same as housing
Society was "built on capitalism" so everything is going to follow the capitalist model: to make everything as profitable as possible on an industrialized level of production.
This doesn't necessarily have to do with IQ, but government grants have only exacerbated the problem.
>the college needs to spend money on quality education
>but they get free millions absolutely guaranteed with govt assistant
>they all do
>free money means no need for competition, it all leads to stagnation
Now you have 3x more non-professor academic staff than professors, hitherto unseen levels of bloat.
This is all a problem, not the problem OP discussed. That is that IQ is falling globally across all races and economic factors. There's only one thing that could be causing it, and it's smartphones. Those pocket internet supercomputers have wrecked people's
>attention spans
always entertainment right there
>memory retention
don't need to remember shit just look it up
>problem solving
don't need to think things just look them up
>socialization
have to do all that shit online, can't talk to people because that's ick
And then there's minor shit like basic geographic navigation (i got maps apps bro) and the ability to type coherently.
Back in my day people used to type "brb" or "lol" because you were playing an MMO and nobody had time to type "i'll be back soon" or "that was fairly amusing". Now everything is these acronyms or monosyllable. There's that book "The Shallows." I haven't read it yet but it talks about the cognitive aspect. That's probably your smoking gun.

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