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> Do we want to deny people that chance to get out of poverty even though they have to knowingly risk their life? What if we provided free higher education and
by madhadron 8y ago
> Do we want to deny people that chance to get out of poverty even though they have to knowingly risk their life?
What if we provided free higher education and stipends rather than making it a carrot to induce those with the right physique to be gladiators? It might get hard to recruit football players, mind you...kind of like how if we actually addressed the systemic problems of poverty in the USA it would be way harder to find volunteers for the military.
- adventured 8y agoYou're advocating for taxpayer funded education, aka shifting the cost from one person to another. The free part you're referring to in other countries, is merely paid for by taxpayers anyway. When trillions of dollars are ultimately involved, it's rather important to never call some of the most expensive welfare services on earth "free." Who would you say the cost should be shifted from and to? What limits would there be on who benefits from the cost shifting? Shifting cost doesn't change the cost. US education, much like US healthcare, is wildly expensive due to universities bloating their systems and dramatically over expanding admin. Those costs are not retreating rapidly no matter what we do. What's your strategy for how much the US can afford to raise taxes to simultaneously pay for hundreds of billions of dollars a year in higher education cost shifting and to meet the epic financial demand for increased socialized healthcare? And I mean in a real scenario, not the one where the US cuts the military budget by hundreds of billions of dollars, because that will never happen.
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