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Originally Posted by Maccalus
On this note, we focus way too much on forcing people to go to university in this country. There are many forms of post-secondary education from trade school to community college that would be way more useful to providing a strong workforce for our economy. Not everyone can or should go to university, but we need to ensure that if they choose to go that route and have the non-monetary entrance requirements that they should be able to.
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Great Post. If a lot of these students saw the value proposition of how cheap their education is relative to the bump in earning potential of getting their education, than having tuition increase with inflation shouldn't lead them to rioting. Which leads me to the position that a lot of these students aren't taking degree programs that lead to being equiped to be in the real economy. They want to be able to take a degree program in what they're passionate about at a minimum cost to them
and have a well-paying job on the other end. The reality is that the real world often doesn't value in dollars everone's optimal vocation. The problem might not be tuition costs or the economy but rather an expectation that the current student generation has that they can pursue anything they want in life
and have a high standard of living. Ultimately tradeoffs need to be made.
Devil's Advocate has a point if the cost of education escalates above inflation. In this case though that is not what's on the table. You can't have it both ways where we all live in harmony and everyone's union job pays them wage increases that exceed inflation and then have the government take care of natural inflation on tuition, thereby making tutition essentially free over the course of time.