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>or bleed the middle class taxpayers dry. You may have missed this part. Universities are not free in those countries you speak of, what happens is taxpayers j
by yucky 5y ago
>or bleed the middle class taxpayers dry.
You may have missed this part. Universities are not free in those countries you speak of, what happens is taxpayers just end up with far less disposable income.
- seanhunter 5y agoYou may have missed the part that the cost per capita is higher in the US for a worse outcome. The US is not a low-tax country in spite of the fact that the government provides fewer services than in Europe.
- yucky 5y agoThis is the end result though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_capita_income https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c... This is why people come from all over the world to work and study in the US.
- seanhunter 5y agoWhat I was posting was not intended as a general critique of the US - there's a lot that's fantastic about the US. However the way tertiary education works in the US seems broken relative to other places in the world. In particular, saddling swathes of young people with a lifetime of debt service in exchange for an education seems incredibly unfair and the way the debate is framed in the US is around the pros and cons of debt forgiveness rather than a root cause analysis of whether it needs to be so expensive in the first place. The FA is about the value of education and as I take an Aristotelian view that the value of an education is primarily about the fulfillment of the individual first and foremost and the wider benefits that brings to society secondly and almost not at all about being a productive worker I go back to my point that the article just ignores lots of ways in which education can have value.