> It's worth noting that Harvard grad students are the ones getting attention here, and not the average person getting squeezed by rent.
This is a single article, and a single article can only usefully highlight a single issue. If news articles could only talk about the worst problems in the world, then perhaps every news article in the world would be about climate change. Which perhaps wouldn't be a bad thing! But still, this is a red herring, because other news articles do in fact talk about the average person getting squeezed by rent.
> Are you going to whack-a-mole every single employer in the Boston MSA to pay at least $60k?
Not every employer in the Boston area has a $50 billion endowment.
This is a single article, and a single article can only usefully highlight a single issue. If news articles could only talk about the worst problems in the world, then perhaps every news article in the world would be about climate change. Which perhaps wouldn't be a bad thing! But still, this is a red herring, because other news articles do in fact talk about the average person getting squeezed by rent.
> Are you going to whack-a-mole every single employer in the Boston MSA to pay at least $60k?
Not every employer in the Boston area has a $50 billion endowment.