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I disagree, especially in cases, where it costs you 100k dollars, and leads to years of debt. If it is free, it is a different story, but not here in US.
by karmasimida 2y ago
I disagree, especially in cases, where it costs you 100k dollars, and leads to years of debt.
If it is free, it is a different story, but not here in US.
- LudwigNagasena 2y agoIn no place university education is “free”. There are different ways it’s funded, but someone pays for it one way or another.
- HarHarVeryFunny 2y agoMaybe, but paying your taxes doesn't put you in debt for decades.
- willcipriano 2y agoThis argument is old and outdated, In the US we pay high taxes similar to places with "free" services. The US just spends it on foreign governments as opposed to its own citizens like Europe does.
- icoder 2y agoAnd then lets the services like health care, prison and education be butchered for profit (that doesn't come back to the public good but feeds inequality)
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- School-Cotton 2y agoThe U.S. doesn’t spend most of its budget on “foreign governments”. The reason public services in the U.S. are so bad despite such high taxes is extreme inefficiency.
- AlecSchueler 2y agoBut the cost to the service user is what has bearing on the ROI calculation for those individuals. Different organisational funding systems have different interests.
- Scandiravian 2y agoEveryone understands this. People say free, as in "free at the point of use/consumption" I think it's somewhat disrespectful to assume other people don't understand a pretty elementary economic principle
- redeux 2y agoIf we’re talking about an individual’s ROI ( as the article does ) without taking into account the overall economic benefits, then why isn’t it fair to call something free if an individual doesn’t have to pay for it themselves?