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How many lives has education saved? Thanks to education we have developed science and technology that save and extend billions of lives.

And if you were to drop everyone out of college today, how would the suicide rate evolve over the long term? I'm pretty sure it would be worse.

You should finish your analogy and tell us, what exactly, is the long term benefit of instagram/FB that makes up for it's short term negative effect?




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