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Yeah, but just putting a price tag on it wouldn't change anything about the structure of students. Those with money would still pay to study those same literatu
by ivanhoe 7y ago
Yeah, but just putting a price tag on it wouldn't change anything about the structure of students. Those with money would still pay to study those same literature, psychology, pedagogy, law, etc. That's what happened in my home country Serbia, people pay a lot of money to low-quality private Universities to get basically useless diplomas, hoping that when opportunity arises they'll be able to use that paper to catch some job opening in government or NGOs or big international companies, or to emigrate to EU. Some succeed, but majority just throws away that money...
- badpun 7y agoSame happens here. I believe it's a sort of Hail Mary for them - they perhaps lack the toughness requires for working in trades, lack the brains for being a doctor/engineer, so they enroll in an easy degree that still gives them non-zero chance of getting a job that's better that McDonalds.
- moorhosj 7y agoTrades, medicine and engineering are the only viable careers for tough or smart people? Now we have moved beyond "humanities are a waste of time" to having no need for finance, accounting, marketing, legal, economics or architecture.