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" they almost all earn median-or-above salaries at 25 (~72k)." So you do realize that that most people cannot earn median or above salaries' by definition, rig

• 1337biz 8y ago
  You will find very few people cleaning toilets in Swizerland that grew up through their education system.
• m_mueller 8y ago
  as someone else pointed out, I distinguished between workers from inside and outside the system, i.e. first generation migrants, thst make up at least 15% of population. Total number of inhabitants without citizenship is somewhere around 30-35%. Then there’s also those who drop out of, or cannot find, apprenticeships. That’s the dark side of the system, around 25% of apprenticeships are dropped, which often leads to below median wages. For those cases there‘s also colprehensive social services though. It‘s much cheaper to invest right at the source of poverty (children of people far below median) than to deal with long term effects such as prisons, poor health etc.