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No citation required. It’s common knowledge that people value something more if they pay for it vs if it’s gifted/given to them. I also love how you tried to break this out into a rich vs poor debate even though rich people who have college paid for them (rich kids can and do use grants like Pell, bet you didn’t know that) are no different in terms of cheating than poor people.

What’s counterproductive is bringing up cheating like it has anything at all to do with funding college. It’s an entirely orthogonal concept.

Hahaha nope, it’s a pretty big issue and handing out free college to everyone will only increase the issue. You should stop talking about this issue as if you know anything about it unless you’ve worked in the education sector like I have.