I hate you.
Why? You think university/college tuition is slavery.
You have the audacity to compare being kidnapped, being stripped of all rights, and then forced to work against your will for some slaver owner to freely entering into a contractual agreement to pay professors for their time.
I cannot even fathom how you can possibly dare to compare those two things. One: a horrible act of violence against another. The second: a generally well accepted idea that you pay someone for their goods and services.
It’s like when PeTA compared eating chicken to the holocaust.
I… I… I honestly cannot think of anything else to say, please, just grow up.
Warm regards,
Greg.
P.S. I know what you’re trying to accomplish: getting the government to pay for the tuition for you. But don’t get me wrong, I still hate you.
Its really a bad idea, but, since you all seem to be against a little thing called “research” I’ll provide some relevant facts:
First, there is no free lunch, or free breakfast, or in this case no free tuition. Money has to come from somewhere and it will either come through inflation (like with Healthcare) or through new taxes. Either way, you’ll end up paying for the professors, classroom resources, and a boatload of government bureaucrats.
Second, the rise in tuition costs are largely due to the increase in people going to school. Figure classrooms, dorms, and the surrounding communities can only support a limited amount of students. As more students converge on a given campus prices rise due. It’s simple economics.
Third, government subsidized loans are a huge reason for the increase in tuition costs. As the cost of money for students is cheap, students typically can safely borrow more money and be able to pay it back. The obvious benefit: students can pay higher and higher tuition costs. The drawback is with students being so flush with cash universities have no reason to control costs. Instead, the university can charge ever higher premiums and know students will just borrow the money.
Fourth, you have proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt a college or university education makes anyone smarter. Tuition as slavery? I know, I made a huge deal about it before, but, still. Maybe we should just abandon universities and actually make stuff in factories (which, by the way, pays more than you might think), instead of whining the “problems” we do or do not face.
Like I said before: I hate you.
this reminded me of that time that we decided we both hate people and we should start a club.
then we remembered that our club would become too popular, and we would hate everyone in our club.
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but seriously, i don’t know why people get it in their heads that stuff is ‘free’. there is no ‘free’. even if money grew on trees, that tree would still belong to someone. that’s the hardest part of my job, i think, is that the homeless think that food and government subsidies magically appear out of thin air. it doesnt, between my husband and i, we pay over 1/5 of our income in taxes. (which is quite a lot when our combined annual household income is around 40 grand for 2 people. ) not to mention the trillions of dollars that the us is currently in the hole.