It should be noted that there is a deeper cause behind this. I am not fully informed on it, but from my limited knowledge, the increase in cost of higher ed. is mainly due to increased administrative costs, which is a product of hiring an unnecessary amount of administrators, which in my experience turns even the slightest problem in payments, enrollment, or signing forms into a Kafka-esque struggle of going through four administrators just to find the right one. The reason so many administrators have been hired is largely due to an immigration reform passed in the early 90s. In the name of globalism, universities opened their doors to students, particularly from east asia, in order to increase supply and lower costs of faculty assistants and TAs. Universities gave away more degrees then ever, and the rest of the job market wasn't ready, and thus Universities brought many students back as admins. This idea comes from Mathematician Eric Weinstein.

With the advent of digital communication (social media, internet, etc.), and to a lesser extent analog communication (phone calls), the bandwidth of social media communication has grown exponentially. The input cost of a 5 page letter is far higher than of a 5 minute phone call, yet the same information can be conveyed with the additional benefit of dialogue and tone. Social network platforms like twitter or tik tok contain within them a world of information, attitudes, and expressions of identity. As bandwidth increases, our interactions across social media become more representative and interchangeable with direct social interaction.