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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by henrikschroder on Sunday June 04, 2017 @07:12PM (#14484239)
> If you aren't willing to invest in yourself, why should society do so?

Because society has an interest in a large, well-educated labour pool that its entrepreneurs and companies can draw from. They can then employ these people, and pay them high salaries, a part of which goes back to education, and there you have a positive spiral.

Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by geodel on Sunday June 04, 2017 @08:15PM (#14484462)
With rising level of joblessness across the world, I am not too sure societies are having difficulty in having large well educated labour pool.