I'm not seeing the strawman? Plenty of people are claiming the cost of university is more than its worth. Ariely is offering a counterpoint. Others argue that education is a right, but he isn't addressing that in this case.
I think the straw man is re-framing the "college is too expensive compared to what how it benefits your life later on and compared to how expensive it obviously could be (tuition prices outpacing inflation by extreme amounts over the last 25 years show this)" to be "college is too expensive compared to the cost of the services provided while you are there".
I don't know that I'd call it a strawman myself, but I like Ariely's writing so I'm biased. It's certainly not quite the same issue as the one being debated currently.
We'll he's saying that the price is right for a '24-hour-a-day college experience' but seems to imply that that is the only alternative to community colleges.
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I'm not seeing the strawman? Plenty of people are claiming the cost of university is more than its worth. Ariely is offering a counterpoint. Others argue that education is a right, but he isn't addressing that in this case.
I think the straw man is re-framing the "college is too expensive compared to what how it benefits your life later on and compared to how expensive it obviously could be (tuition prices outpacing inflation by extreme amounts over the last 25 years show this)" to be "college is too expensive compared to the cost of the services provided while you are there".
I don't know that I'd call it a strawman myself, but I like Ariely's writing so I'm biased. It's certainly not quite the same issue as the one being debated currently.
We'll he's saying that the price is right for a '24-hour-a-day college experience' but seems to imply that that is the only alternative to community colleges.
And hello, sockpuppet.