• Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I definitely sympathize with people in college debt, but this feels like just temporary wins and doesn’t address the real problems. This won’t solve the overpriced cost of education. Forgive debt now, a new crop of students will just go into debt next, right?

    We need universities to be completely free, universal single payer health care, drastically cheaper housing to rent and own, etc.

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      7 months ago

      Why do you want free universities for degrees that actually give a net benefit?

      And the reason housing is so expensive is directly due to government intervention in housing.

      • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        because I’m not a piece of shit and want to see my fellow Americans do better. a rising tide lifts all boats.

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            7 months ago

            Wow TIL all degrees are useless.

            What’d you get your degree in? Maybe you got a useless one.

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              7 months ago

              Where did I say all degrees are useless? I got my degrees in engineering and science.

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                7 months ago

                Dude you must think they get their degrees in feminist dance or some boogeyman degree. News flash you want some people to get good jobs with that “useless” feminist dance degree. Because if not, they’re going to crowd into degrees like engineering and greater numbers of engineering grads creates greater competition for engineering jobs… which drives down the pay that most engineers get, plus it reduces the odds of actually getting a starter engineering job. Supply & demand.

                Signed, 100% NOT a feminist.

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                  7 months ago

                  The market pretty much tells us what are useful and useless degrees. The issue with your theory is that people do crowd into engineering and then the joke is after they fail they do business.

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                    7 months ago

                    So when they shipped computer engineering jobs overseas the market was saying computer engineering is useless? Man you really know a lot of things that simply aren’t true.