Re:The American Dream Isn’t Alive in Denmark
by mrweasel on Friday August 05, 2016 @01:36PM
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I'm not entirely sure of your point. My neighbourhood is a carpenter and I assure you, he make significantly more money than I do as a developer. Still, I don't want to be a carpenter, I want to be a software developer. I can't speak for the rest of the Danish population, of cause, but I think that most of us are raised on the premise that we can be anything we want be, and we should pick a career that will make us happy.
When you're in a society where it financially doesn't matter which career path you pick, you're completely free to pursue a career that will make you happy. I'm not forced to "gamble" on college. I'm free to choose to go to college, if that will make me happy. The only limitations are my abilities, and the quotas on certain educations, because we really don't need that many lawyers or people with degrees in "French 19th century painters".
You equating success with money, and that's not really the case when you're ensured, well almost, that what ever you do, you will pay well enough.
Of cause there are poor people in Denmark, of cause there are people who absolutely hate their job, and there a tons of people that would rather have a well paying miserable job, than a fun low paying job. Denmark is not a countries filled with hippies, where everything is perfect and everyone gets their fair share. There's people who have be extremely careful about how they spend their money, if they don't want to live of pasta the last week of every month. BUT their children, if they have the abilities and the desire, have the option, for free (plus 800USD per month to help pay for food, rent and books), to go to college... or become a well paid carpenter.
When you're in a society where it financially doesn't matter which career path you pick, you're completely free to pursue a career that will make you happy. I'm not forced to "gamble" on college. I'm free to choose to go to college, if that will make me happy. The only limitations are my abilities, and the quotas on certain educations, because we really don't need that many lawyers or people with degrees in "French 19th century painters".
You equating success with money, and that's not really the case when you're ensured, well almost, that what ever you do, you will pay well enough.
Of cause there are poor people in Denmark, of cause there are people who absolutely hate their job, and there a tons of people that would rather have a well paying miserable job, than a fun low paying job. Denmark is not a countries filled with hippies, where everything is perfect and everyone gets their fair share. There's people who have be extremely careful about how they spend their money, if they don't want to live of pasta the last week of every month. BUT their children, if they have the abilities and the desire, have the option, for free (plus 800USD per month to help pay for food, rent and books), to go to college... or become a well paid carpenter.