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By "extremely privileged", are you referring to people whose parents didn't pay for their education and so they had to take out loans?
by game-of-throws 4y ago
By "extremely privileged", are you referring to people whose parents didn't pay for their education and so they had to take out loans?
- willcipriano 4y agoPeople who came from backgrounds where the idea of spending a house worth of money on a piece of paper that employers aren't even interested in isn't batshit insane. Sue the school if they lied to you about the prospects of the degree. If they didn't and you went into this deal clear eyed, why am I paying for your years of partying?
- dijit 4y ago"Extremely" privileged, maybe not. But I was too poor to even think of going to University in the UK, and that's not even half as bad as it is in the US; it's not just the student loans; it is also student living (rent, food, supplies), putting earnings on hold for half-a-decade and the possibility that you may not even have anything to show for it in the end (if you can't hack it or if the degree turns out to be not in-demand) it's not like you're guaranteed work. It's a gamble, and a hard one to make if you're from a lower-class blue-collar or non-working household. I'm sure I'll get a deluge of very privileged people here telling me that it would be effectively free to have an education in the UK due to certain debt forgiveness models and earning thresholds, I'm aware of those, but people would be hugely missing the point.