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In the US, we can't go to university for $500 a year, like in some European countries. Or like our parents did a generation ago. You've got to come up with th
by douche 11y ago
In the US, we can't go to university for $500 a year, like in some European countries. Or like our parents did a generation ago.
You've got to come up with the scratch somehow to pay for the education, and that comes in, on average, somewhere north of $20k per year. Most people take out student loans, and graduate with the equivalent of a medium mortgage-worth of debt out of the gate. If you get a degree in some squishy field, you're taking the risk that you're going to sentence yourself to a decade or more of near-poverty because of the combination of loan debt and low salary/lack of occupation in that field, or you have to double-down and go to grad school, racking up more years of debt. Then you might find that you haven't bought yourself much advantage with the two or three years and $75k you spent.
It's always your decision what to do. Fiscal prudence shouldn't be a target of derision either. You can always go pursue your passions on your own time after you put food on the table.
- eli_gottlieb 11y agoNone of what you said actually enables anyone to make accurate, or even rational, forecasts of which educations will be the most profitable 50 years into the future. Even 20-30 is fairly difficult.
- douche 11y agoYou may not be able to pick the best horse in the race, but you probably shouldn't bet your life's savings on the three-legged, spavined goat.
- intopieces 11y ago>In the US, we can't go to university for $500 a year, like in some European countries. Or like our parents did a generation ago. Since we agree it need not be this way (for it hasn't always been), it's prudent to ask why we choose to enrich the few at the cost of the many. The derision is not towards the fiscally prudent, but towards the stewards that have squandered the nation's intellectual birthright in favor of social Darwinism. It's sheer opportunism on the part of money lenders upheld by the old guard of "Protestant work ethic." A perfect storm of exploitation in which we should refuse to participate.