Wills discussing Hollywood's deeply conservative tendencies and how they manifested within the star system

As recently as the late 1980s, tuition at @uwmadison.bsky.social was <$1000/semester. In current dollars, that's about $2500/semester. There is one central reason for that: the . This was a choice. Other choices remain readily available.

What prompted this relative decline from its peak 40 years ago? "Capitalism" can be used to fill in the blank obviously, but idk, foregrounding *recent* dynamics (like the ubiquity of the internet, increasing inequality, etc) seems worthwhile www.pewresearch.org/2025/05/08/a...

I don't like the term "crony capitalism" either, but what McMillan Cottom said seems uncontroversial. Yes, this fits under a broad umbrella of capitalism, but our present moment is characterized by declining social trust, which can perversely make collective projects/aspirations harder to sell!

for folks who prefer reading (like me); a few years old, but holds up re: my more recent encounter with the language carlineng.com?postid=mallo...