Expanded Public Education

Feb 16, 2020 10:27 PM

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I don't think "free" college will solve much. Need to improve secondary schools. More trade school options.

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Either way, I think it's a lot more complicated than what this post tried to dumb it down to.

6 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 3

People are tired of paying for crap education, that's why. High school isn't good enough anymore but no one wants to improve that first.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

*Experiences Vietnam flashbacks to how shittily run my public schools were* RIP college :(

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

With federal loans the money is already free for the college. Why keep costs competitive if you’re guaranteed money?

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

hows about. we figure out why college costs so much and fix that before giving the government more control over our lives...

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Of course they waited till a college education was nearly worthless to bring up the idea of making it "free" via taxes

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I don’t agree that “free college” is the best way to describe this. It’d be awesome if everyone got 2 years of free vocational/education

6 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

and then could decide if they wanted to pursue additional education or training. There’s a lot of pressure on 18 year olds to pick a career.

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

There need to be some ground rules about what classes and majors are covered. Elective courses and bullshit degrees should be student pay.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

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6 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 9

Government does not want an educated populace.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

This point comes from the type of people that think a degree guarantees economic success, fails to account for the need for unskilled labor.

6 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

Skilled blue collar labor. I just paid a plumber $150/hr to dig up and replace sewage pumps. There’s a great need in the service industry.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

This is correct as well.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

fix public education first and maybe we can talk, because as it is im unsure its worth my tax dollars anymore either.

6 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 5

This is a delaying tactic. When told we need billions to fix k-12, you'll say "fix poverty first".

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

nope. money alone wont fix the problem, and adding college on top of a system already in need of major work wont help the situation.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It worked for white people: We used the GI bill to send all those white kids to college. The economy and living standards boomed.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

this is socialism!!!!!

6 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 8

alright, if this is socialism, then mark me down as a socialist

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

/s

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

I'll support publically funded college for others when the government refunds the tuition I already paid for.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

"Things were shitty for me, so they can't get better for anyone else." Bold move, Cotton.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

College is expensive due to folks like Elizabeth Warren teaching ONE CLASS for a salary of $400k! It's a scam.

6 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 8

At Harvard.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Yeah, that's Harvard. Most colleges aren't paying any professor anywhere close to that.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Government loans = cost goes up 600% in 40 years. So now: "It's too expensive, let the government pay for it!"

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

IMO we need to fix public education k-12 first and fix college. There is no reason that a computer science degree needs to take English

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

That should be taken care of in high school.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

English (particularly technically-oriented courses) is a bad example if the CS people I know are any indication.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But that’s SOCIALISM!

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6 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 1

As long as I can live in public housing, get food stamps, social security, and medicare, I don't want any socialism!

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Socialism at the fundamental level is just taking care of your neighbors. Idk why we are supposed to think its evil.

6 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

As a American that lived in Germany for 8 years. Socialism is awesome.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So is social security but everyone seens ok with that....

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

Apparently not everyone is ok with it

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If that’s “socialism”, sign us the fuck up!

6 years ago | Likes 65 Dislikes 22

Sign yourself up by moving to a socialist country but leave the rest of us out of it.

6 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 26

But... but... Venezuela! George Soros! THE ILLUMINATI!

6 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 11

You still believe in Venezuela? Damn sheeple.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

ReEeEeEEeeeeeEe!!!11!!

6 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 11

The funny thing is that the country with the largest military spending on the planet, we have people that worry about socialism /1

6 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 4

Not realizing that the military is not only socialism in action by the fact that it is nearly 100% tax funded. But also military members /2

6 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 4

Benefit from all sorts of socialist programs from their food, to housing, medical care, and education while enlisted. Socialism seems great.

6 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 4

As a military member let me tell you that our food, housing, and medical care are fucking trash. But thats just because its military.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

No, that's because it's capitalism to outsource to the lowest bidder, and that's where almost everything is made.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

So are professors going to paid as much as public school teachers? I really would like to know how many of them support that notion.

6 years ago | Likes 46 Dislikes 15

The average elementary school salary is roughly my current one. If I had the misfortune of being an adjunct, I would be earning even less.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I mean elementary teachers literally have to pay out of pocket for their students

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Most non-tenure track professors (which is most professors) would be thrilled to get public school teacher pay+benefits.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Aspiring professor here: my research focused colleagues get their higher pay through grant money for projects. Salaries are similar to k-12.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

That would be a substantial raise for a lot of them.

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 3

Professors at community colleges are paid about the same as public school teachers. Adjuncts make far...FAR less.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

A large number of PhDs are temporary faculty who get paid roughly the same as public school teachers but without the union/safety net. 1/3

6 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 4

Professors at most teaching schools are only paid marginally more, after 5+ years of education, in the current system. 2/3

6 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Professors at research institutions are commonly funded through grants and subsidies for research, less so undergrad tuition. 3/3

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Professors don't get paid shit anymore. And they were never well-paid relative to their education level.

6 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 4

My professors as the university of decent state school got 150K salaries.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

That's how much my public school teachers got paid. If you go to a public school that actually has funding, they actually pay the teachers.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The average salary for a tenured professor in the US (which is like winning the damn lottery nowadays) is $75,400.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The current career path for most academics is to labor for a decade as an assistant or associate professor, get denied tenure, get replaced.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yes, shift the burden to taxpayers. That will definitely be an incentive for colleges to lower their costs.

6 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 8

"I have, with my hypothetical, disproven the reality of the rest of the world. Reality got nothing on my shower thoughts"

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 4

So edgy.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

I'm sorry if reality is edgy to you.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Did I say edgy? I misspelled cringey.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Okay. Congratulations.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

This wouldn't be a problem if previously highschool jobs didn't "require" a college degree. Less folks should be going to college, not more.

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No. Factory work was going to be outsourced or automated sooner or later, if anything unions quickened the process. But it was the huge 1/2

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portion of people unecessarily going to college that denigrated tradespeople and made such a glut of collegiates as to displace hs grads. 2

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Unpopular opinion. Not everyone is cut out for college. We need carpenters, electricians, etc most people in those fields are 50+

6 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 2

If you need something, you must pay for it. The salaries in those jobs simply don't justify the physical and economic risk.

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Popular Opinion: Technical colleges can, should, and generally are (based on statements) covered by Free College advocate plans.

6 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

I'd extend that to say most people aren't cut out for it.

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In denmark all education is free, people chose what they chose, equality of opportunity, if someone isn't cut out for a thing, then they >

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won't achieve it. It benefits society greatly to have high social mobility and equality of opportunity, since those who can and want to >

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do good things, innovate, better things, etc, have the means to that they might not otherwise just cus they got the short end of the stick >

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in what circumstances they were born in to.

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I don't understand why people who are against this are the same saying "make America great again". To be great you have to give the

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

1. No they're not. 2. It's a false premise. As government has gotten more involved in education, the prices has skyrocketed.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 5

possibility to work in important fields to intelligent people, not just rich people. It keeps the country back and you are minimizing the

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

possibilities to create new inventions, find cures, progress as society. The more people are educated the more possibilities you have that

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

some of them is a genius and make great things for your country.

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Cheaper college is good but please God don't lump it in with public, few programs are as flawed and outdated as that

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Post made it seem like college would be handled by the government like public school and the US public education system is garbage

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6 years ago (deleted Mar 2, 2020 6:56 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Half the schools I grew up in had poor staff, plenty of teachers have to buy their own supplies or ask parents to provide class supplies>>

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Either because the school board doesnt care or doenst have a proper budget, a number of classes either aren't needed or can be shortened>>

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Aren't public schools failing and closing everywhere?

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 4

No?

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Thanks Betsy devoss

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I think public schools have been failing well before she came along.

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Trump's been cutting the education budget and jacking up military spending for the past 4 years, so wouldn't surprise me.

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Common core is killing schools. Many are reverting back.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

How is common core causing schools to fail and close?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's not necessarily causing them to close...but test scores are down. It's dumbing down kids.

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The first CC kids are now seniors...and their scores are worse. It just doesn't work and it confuses kids...math especially.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

That makes sense. I think they need to focus more on statistics and a little less on algebra.

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Citation? I've mostly seen mixed results (basically modest gains, if any), except for one that hasn't been formally peer-reviewed and is

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“Master’s Degree Required” (pays minimum wage)

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6 years ago (deleted Feb 17, 2020 5:38 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

And free colleges will devalue our degrees! /S

6 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 4

It's not the paper. It's what you know how to do.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Is this post claiming that this would CREATE this scenario? Because if so its wrong. That shit happens now WITHOUT college being free.

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I saw a job once that was full time paying like $24k. Wanted a PhD.

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Probably where it will go to.

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Entry level job ..required 5 years experience.... ?

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Oh, and 5 years experience.

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Entry level and you have to have a 3 year unpaid internship.

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In a technology invented 2 years ago.

6 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 2

You'll see this more often. The more degrees there are out there the less valuable they will b. Bachelors will b like a high school diploma

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Trade school is the answer.

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I like

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The difference being what university and what degree you studied.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

This is already the truth. A bachelor's means nothing to many organizations because it's rarer not to have one than to have one.

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its already this

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Basically. You already need a bachelor's to get decent-paying work, but at right now you have to go into debt (or rely on parents) to get it

6 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Get a degree in economics like I did. Pretty much useless outside the field, but it sounds fancy enough to make people think you're smart.

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College dropout here: It's really not. Got a better job than my computer science degree friend. He works at a grocery store and I work in IT

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Degrees mean nothing in almost every field (except Medicine, most states law, and research).

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

more that degrees are now the bare minimum. Most jobs you apply on online. 99% good paying jobs will have some check box that says

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not for minimum wage, more so for career type jobs. Of course you could get paid to learn a trade, have 0 debt and more $ than a masters.

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Early on Trade jobs pay more, but in the long run, you will make more with a degree. Not to mention type of work and hours you will work

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

are very different. Someone will a degree can get a cushy office job making over 100K and barely work 40hrs a week.

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College educating everyone doesn’t make sense. We still need mechanics and electricians and truckers. Why should we pay to get them degrees?

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The idea isn't forced college, it's making it available at low or no cost. Learning trades should also be encouraged, even subsidized.

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ya know most mechanics, electricians, and plumbers go to college too, just to a like trade school instead of a 4 year degree.

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Yeah well back in my day we didn't need no god dern "education"! We worked like real men!

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Trade/vocational schools are always included in these plans.

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Good.

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1) The idea isn't sending 100% of the population to college 2) If they're accepted, why shouldn't higher education be available to them?

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What makes you think trade and vocational schools arent included? Why do you all create & imagine up these non-existent hurdles? Its amazing

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there is no down side to mechanics, electricians, and truckers being more educated than is absolutely necessary to do their job functions

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No, but it gives people the freedom of choice. School isn't for everyone, but it would be smart not to waste talented or motivated people.

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So let’s not offer college b/c some industries don’t require it?should we not offer HS diplomas because some jobs don’t require that Either?

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You do realize not everyone will actually go to college and get a degree right? This would give those that want to a better chance

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There is an enormous amount of tertiary information that is taught in higher education that isnt monetizable like a trade but helps create

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

informed adults who are able to make intelligent decisions in their lives and as a part of a community. Biology, health classes, economics,

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

and history classes are critical for helping people be productive and prosperous.

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Literally all of those things should fall under the educational purview of the k-12 system.

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I forget that Americans refer to university as "college". You do realize there are diplomas you can get for trades? From colleges? School-

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Isn't just for STEM or humanities

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Graduated my bachelors magna cum laude here - if I could go back to high school and do it over, I'd go to tech school and be a welder.

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Same my friend. 2 degrees and I am a delivery driver for a cabinetry company.

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Giving everyone an equal opportunity by making it publicly funded does. A meritocracy instead of letting wealth be a major factor

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That would be helpful yes.

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Why are you against that being an option? Automation will end up killing a lot of those jobs in the coming decades anyway.

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I’m not against it. Just against mandatory college for people who aren’t interested. That’s all.

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Where did it say mandatory? AT ALL? No where! Just that people shouldn't go 'bankrupt' to educate themselves further after highschool.

6 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

It's free in Germany - and it's not mandatory, and the country has a significant fraction in trades. They support both paths for careers.

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

No one said it would be mandatory. Dont strawman.

6 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Refering to it as “public education” and comparing it to other public education makes it seem compulsory.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 7

Public Colleges exist and are the norm. Did you think those were compulsory and you somehow got out of it?

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You are making a leap in logic that isn't there. OP was talking about how it's paid for, not who is required to take it.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It’s not fair for manual labor to be looked down on, but also trade jobs aren’t for everyone.

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I didn’t say everyone. Those who test well enough continue on to public ally funded universities. Those that don’t can get trained in trades

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 9

Federal Government decides what you will do with your life.

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Phrasing please, you make it sound like “trades are for dumb people”

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

Or "the good get out". I did some trades work for a bit in various guises - not a lot of deep thinkers there.

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That is a fair critique. I didn’t mean for it to be taken that way. My apologies.

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Just because you aren't academically inclined doesn't mean you are dumb.

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By that metric college isn't for everyone, either. We're unfortunately nearing a time where you're career is going to be dictated to you out

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Everyone has different aspirations and abilities, and those tend to change over time, to say nothing of the job market.

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Of societal need rather than individual passion, like my GFs Dad. We need to reframe our thinking and stop looking down on tradesmen for the

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Vital role they also play in society

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Or they could drop the victim complex.

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I honestly don't see much talk of anyone looking down on tradesmen though?? At least personally.

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I dOnT wAnT tO pAy FoR eVeRyOnE ElSE. I HaD To PaY , So ShOulD tHey

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(mostly people who never went to college anyways)

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Remember when we used to mock this sort of writing and now we use it for sarcasm... how the tables turn tables.

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Well the idea of a sarcasm punctuation marks never took off, and context is hard with informal written language.

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I bet thats exactly what those people look like

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A hand up should be offered to all, not just the group you think has the best chance of voting for you.

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"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."

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because we don't like working in a world full of idiots.

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...So we should reduce people's chances of getting education? Sounds like something an idiot would say.

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I can't tell if you took my statement out of context or not. Evidently people must love idiots.

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I mean let me try and put it in perspective. My college has a 50% drop out rate and its already a public college. Yeah, right now the 1/2

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The system is fucked, but having people pay for someone's personal investment isnt the answer. Especially when it will more 2/3

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Than likely get wasted.

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It’s opportunity cost anyone with student debt should be against free school without debt forgiveness. Otherwise you have 22 year olds(1/2)

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6 years ago (deleted Mar 2, 2020 6:57 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Empathy is not a reason for me to give up 40% of my paycheck

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With as much or more buying power than you, pricing you out of housing markets and putting you in a hole for the rest of your life (2/2)

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"If you suffered and want others to suffer because you 'turned out fine,' you did not in fact turn out fine."

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Or you didn't suffer enough!

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Wow, what a great comment!

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Nobody should SUFFER but there is a lot to be said for life challenges, adversity and learning opportunities vs a life of privilege.

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Picture a typical 'rich kid' vs someone who understands value of things and uses knowledge, ingenuity and logic for decisions and empathy

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I think you're confusing "suffer" with "struggle."

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The quote is (rightly) being used liberally to paint paying for education as "suffering" so the 'confusion' happened before I was involved

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You're right but in the context of this post, college is the learning opportunity and atm suffering is endured to get it. That's plain wrong

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You are right, I'm just a pedantic Mofo

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I 100% agree with this. I'm 30 and owe my left testicle. I don't think it's fair for the next generation to get a foot up.

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Then you still have maturing to do. I have tons of debt, which I chose freely, but i dont wish it on anyone else.

6 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 7

Scumbag.

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Then support a candidate with a platform of student loan forgiveness. Don’t just keep perpetuating this late-stage capitalist caste system

6 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 6

Shoulda paid your way through like I did!

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I say this as respectfully as i can... fuck you. You, having lived the struggle, should be wishing BETTER for others

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The anger you have set upon other commentors is laughable. It's the US, and you are 100% allowed to think this. I worked damn hard for mine.

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You're allowed to think it. Were allowed to think you're a fucking idiot because that's not even what were talking about. Everybody wins.

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Just because I worked really really hard for something doesn’t mean I think I should’ve had to work hard for it.

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And that's exactly the mindset that's fucked the US up for the last 4 decades: "I've got mine, screw everybody else."

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Are you sure it's that mindset or the DNC not being able to get out of it's own way and provide the people with who they want?

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Uhhhh, no. It's the rise of the far left and takeover of the democratic party. It started in the 60s with the veitnam war and loss of values

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Okay boomer.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Ahhhh yes the 'if I can't have it than no one should' mentality...

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Wouldn't your children be part if that next generation?

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Fewer testicles lessens the chance of children, I think. But I never went to college, too expensive.

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Can't have kids. Had to pay my left nut

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Righty's a lame duck, huh?

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Tell ol' righty to step it up.

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I have to pay for the idiocy of others every single day. I would honestly rather pay for college education than deal with another idiot.

6 years ago | Likes 107 Dislikes 23

College doesn't fix idiots. Half the time it makes idiots *think* they're smart, which is dangerous.

6 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 5

Ironically, "higher education" provides a lot of the reason many people conclude they are smart... or, at least, smarter than most others.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

While I agree with you college doesnt fix idiots, it just provides them with opportunities they might not otherwise have had...in theory

6 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 5

Pretty sure more education means fewer idiots, but ok

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 6

The number of college educated morons I work with tells me otherwise. You can't fix stupid.

6 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

It's is a difficult situation to find solutions to. What do you think would be a good angle to look at this?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just imagine what they'd be like if we let them drop out in Middle School like they wanted

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Good education overall gives people opportunity to learn how not (or at least less so) to be idiots.

6 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

I would say that politics proves you wrong.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

I would say politics proved me right.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

People are inherently selfish. Especially Americans.

6 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 15

Americans are greedy not selfish. Selfish means you take from someone else. Greed is not necessarily a bad thing either. 1/2

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 13

The capitalist system has lifted billions out of poverty and made everyone's lives a lot better and created unprecedented economic mobility.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 10

My comment is more about humanity in general. It’s our nature. Americans are just at the top of the heap now so are hoarding wealth.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

It’s China’s turn next to lead the world. Will be interesting to see how America responds to being 2nd. Entitlement colliding with reality.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Whilst making everone fashion bondage cuffs linked to toxic consumeristic practices; making it easier 2 ignore their disconnect from nature.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I missed the part where somebody was critical of capitalism. You can be for expanding public services (IE education) and (1/2)

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

STILL like capitalism (2/2)

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

6 years ago | Likes 279 Dislikes 25

Who the hell downvoted this?

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Stealing this now

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Duh, you have to multitrack drift in that situation. https://imgur.com/27kiFdh

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

YOINK

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Wow, that is the most accurate representation of that mindset I have ever seen.

6 years ago | Likes 71 Dislikes 8

6 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

It's a good analogy, but in this case they are voluntarily laying on the tracks and expecting not to get run over. Someone change my mind ☹️

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

We're all on the tracks. The train is capitalism.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

6 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 4

That's a false analogy

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 39

Nope, it fits spot on (and that's not even considering the fact that tuition inflation means the older gen paid less of a % of total wealth)

6 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 3

Was it fair to all those that died of polio to have made a vaccine to prevent it and then made that accessible to literally 99% of the world

6 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 4

In what sense?

6 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 2

Fuck me for working and being an RA through college, picking a boring but employable major, and living austerely to pay off $20k a year.

6 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 36

Oh, shut up. Jesus christ, yall act like yall are the only ones to go through that. Youre bitter and selfish.

6 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 11

Lemme guess. You picked a bs major, a stupidly unstable amount of debt, can't get a job, and now selfishly want my taxes to bail you out?

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 18

Nope. I didnt go to college right out of HS. I didnt know what i wanted to do, so I worked several shitty jobs and then God/the Universe

6 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 4

Blessdd me with a random job that i love and that pays me more than enough to pay all my bills, have some savings, and have money left

6 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 3

Been there. Wouldn't shed any tears if it wasn't like that for the next guy.

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

If I don't have to pay for him, by all means.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

k

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Now imagine doing it with less and for longer. We've all struggled. Not all of us are fucking assholes. So yeah, fuck you.

6 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 5

You mean with less, like I would have after being forced to pay off your loans for you? If you wanna pay off loans, study something useful.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 17

Shame about those college loans. All that education and you're still a fucking idiot.

6 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

Idiotic except in financial responsibility, I suppose. Managed to pay off everything within a year after school with zero parental help.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 10

Sigh. I hope that is sarcasm.

6 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 70

I’m pretty sure it is.

6 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 6

I hOpE thAtS SarCaSm

6 years ago | Likes 68 Dislikes 2

That every other letter capitalized is internet for sarcasm.

6 years ago | Likes 108 Dislikes 2

*mockery

6 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 1

MoCkErY

6 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 0

Mocherie

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

nIcE

6 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

ThIs GuY gEtS iT

6 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1