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You can still get an education, you just have to be rich.
by dkjaudyeqooe 2y ago
You can still get an education, you just have to be rich.
- Gigachad 2y agoSo the number of educated people in the country drops
- rayiner 2y agoThe america that put a man on the moon had only 10% of adults with a college degree.
- gmm1990 2y agoDoge geniuses would have cut that 4% of the federal budget right before Apollo 11
- anon7000 2y agoIt’s an interesting question. Would doge suddenly have a change of heart if they were trying to compete with a serious enemy?
- johnnyanmac 2y agoGiven Trump's stances this week, I somehow think we've gone reverse red scare and would just work to spread communism in America. We're just so different from 50/60 years ago.
- TychoCelchuuu 2y ago[dead]
- wat10000 2y agoThe America that launched 158 rockets to orbit in one year and landed most of the boosters for reuse had a substantially higher rate.
- selimthegrim 2y agoSo, how was education doing in pre-1971 East Pakistan?
- johnnyanmac 2y agowe also had manufacturing jobs, strong unions, and a better minimum wage. We getting any of those back?
- jmclnx 2y agoTrue, but in the 40s, 50s and 60s, High School Courses were very close to undergrad courses now in the US. Back then, public schools were not afraid of failing students, plus hardly anyone in high school worked after school. Typically they work at summer jobs. Also if you dropped out at 16, you could find work at a living wage, not now.
- yongjik 2y agoOxford and ETH Zurich will be open for the rich, but Trumpists openly despise higher education, and I'm not sure whether any American universities will be safe if Trump stays in power for four years.
- wraaath 2y agoRIP US-based Academia INC In the immediate term, obviously the center of academic research moves to Europe/Asia, but the longer term damage is irreparable. Where is the 0-1 basic research that fundamentally moves the ball forward going to come from? Clearly not the US anymore.
- mlrtime 2y agoYou mean like Pitt's endowment of 5.8 Billion?