For Austria it has been an equalizer in the 1970 to the 1990 when Socialist parties guaranteed free quality education for everyone and parental leave (for woman

For Austria it has been an equalizer in the 1970 to the 1990 when Socialist parties guaranteed free quality education for everyone and parental leave (for woman back then) of more than a year. Since then the educational system has been largely privatized, education by means of sheer oversupply completely devalued and turned into a money game. The more money you are willing to pay, the easier it will become to get a degree, mostly unaffected by the cognitive ability of the student. As this fact is increasingly tickling into society, the effect is that education is no longer an equalizer.