Re:Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong
by whydoyoucare on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @01:43PM
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I don't agree having free Universities, nor having prohibitively expensive fees, is the solution. University education has to be paid, but affordable (and yes, I realize this is the catch -- defining "affordable"). But a "modern, first world indusrialized nation" like America should be able to assign a $ value to that variable, and make Uni education accessible.
>student loans taken out by bright college students who surely knew what a loan is
That's not quite fair. First, universities are free in modern, first-world industrialized nations. Second, the university fees are so prohibitively expensive that a loan is necessary for anyone bright but not born wealthy. In other words, it's a predatory mechanism geared to any bright student who wants to get an education to have a better life. It needs to go.
You might want to read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years