So, you worked at sixty+/- hours (minimum) a week. For how long? Five years? Because, if you were indebted to the tune of $50,000 at 11% interest, I don't know how you'd live even with that many hours of work and make payments. And, even if you are superman, does the fact one guy can do it mean we want that for our society at large? NO other developed country puts banks ahead of its future leaders, NONE. Do you work in banking, now?
I don't understand your argument: it's okay to make higher ed a business? Make as much as you can from a captive clientele? And it is misleading to claim your situation was the same: tuition has not kept pace with any measure of inflation: it's four, five, six times as much. Why do you intentionally mislead, AAS? 
And "unprecedented?" Yes, hell yes. When do you think tuition has increased by these amounts before, for goodness' sake? I'm not attacking you, I'm attacking your misleading and erroneous claims.