yes---$350/2.50=140 hours of minimum wage work and your tuition was paid

And how many boomers went to college because it was inexpensive?

Then we got higher paying jobs and that meant the government collects more taxes. That's the motivation for educating the populace. It's win-win.

Our generation agreed to let the government invest less and less in education and we in turn had to help our children pay for college. Now mine are making 6 figures, paying a lot of taxes and treat me very well.

College professors are not that highly paid anymore.