Business schools are slashing MBA tuition by up to 50%. Tomorrow, SSC begins a four-part series examining what that fire sale actually signals — and who it leaves behind. The Degree Economy traces the collapse of the MBA pipeline from every direction at once: a credential being marked down, the jobs it was supposed to access being eliminated by AI, the workers most in need of an upgrade least positioned to use the discount, and the institutions built to serve them absorbing cuts while the sale plays out around them. Part I publishes tomorrow. Subscribe so you don’t miss it.