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Re:Most Canadians Are Now Better Off Than Most Americans by appleiigs on Friday August 30, 2019 @03:04PM (#20841568)
I find the US colleges to be "clubs" with lots of alumni support. I haven't watch NFL in a while, but for some reason pros who have been in NFL for 10 years still say which college they went to. I think this motivates people to pay extremely high fees to get into the club.

Whereas in Canada, like you said, "if she or he applies to them all, will likely get into one". And in 10 years nobody cares where you went school. Oddly more of a meritocracy than in the US, which you wouldn't expect in a more socialist Canadian system.

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Re:Most Canadians Are Now Better Off Than Most Americans by rayiner on Friday August 30, 2019 @03:21PM (#20841714)
On what dimension is Canada "socialist?"
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Re:Most Canadians Are Now Better Off Than Most Americans by appleiigs on Sunday September 01, 2019 @02:30AM (#20850804)
On a provincial level, the NDP socialist political party has had success getting voted in. Recently they are usually not re-elected in after messing everything up, but socialism in Canada has strong roots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_in_Canada.
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