This opinion sounds evil to me (not a reflection on you personally). > It helps society because you have more educated people with additional knowledge who ma

This opinion sounds evil to me (not a reflection on you personally). > It helps society because you have more educated people with additional knowledge who may share back with the community at little cost. Same could be said of younger people - but they can actually do the good over many more decades than the senior people! So the social good is much more compounded! > Seniors have no employment goals. There is no need to limit supply because it doesn't affect the marketplace. This has many assumptions baked in that are hard to justify, such as: - Younger people will 'flood' free PhD programs and successfully complete them, the price is the only thing keeping the flood under control. This sounds wrong because a PhD will still take time, effort & interest to complete. - The job marketplace for PhDs is a fixed pie and a zero sum game. This sounds wrong because I buy into the belief system that more progress for all leads to more jobs (and prosperity) for all. - It is morally justifiable to keep poor or disadvantaged - yet interested - people, out of the hallowed academic gates, by simply pricing the programs high. This is egregious for self explanatory reasons. You are probably "telling it like it is", but I really hope that awful status quo is overhauled for the better, and for more access to all - old and young.