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Originally Posted by stone hands
ah, the old
"give people free education and they'll all become doctors of basket weaving and gender studies" argument
also lol @ the biggest cost of school is living expenses
i think ok boomer is an adequate response to this guy
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First there is no free education, its just a question of who pays for it.
Second an educations value is proportional to its scarcity, when only 20% of the population has a degree it is a ticket to a good job, when 50% of the population has a degree it gets you an average job (the clue's in the 50%), the reason is quite simple, there aren't vast numbers of good jobs, someone still has to make the coffee at Starbucks, in this 'free education' future your BA qualifies you to work at Costco, no more.
Third, unlike you I deal with free tuition already, I'm a foster dad and my foster kids get free tuition but they still cant afford to go to school as they don't have parents who can keep them, feed them and take care of them for 4 years, so yes for the 'poor' free tuition is meaningless, for the middle class a nice gift.