IF ONLY THERE HAD BEEN SOME SORT OF WARNING: “They built the cost structure of a growth company on top of a customer base that was mathematically guaranteed to shrink.”
Universities had 17 years of warning. They responded by doing the opposite of what the math demanded.
In 2008, American birth rates fell off a cliff. The Great Recession made people stop having kids. Those never-born children would be turning 18 right now. The number of U.S.… https://t.co/0tI8qYNR94
— Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) May 19, 2026