New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift

Re:New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift by dewey on Monday February 26, 2024 @10:38PM (#39519884)

There will always be bad people and outliers but most people are not behaving like that. There's many countries where "free" education and healthcare (In the sense that most of the cost is abstracted away in taxes) work.

It's definitely also cultural as you can see in many Asian countries where public infrastructure (parks, public workout machines, public toilets) are treated well and are in good shape compared to other places (My point of reference being Berlin).

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Re:New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift by WalterBright on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @03:22AM (#39521506)

Asian countries probably likely have a high level of enforcement against people who try to destroy public property.

For another data point, look at how clean and well-kept public "free" housing is compared with privately owned housing.

Or how those experiments with free bicycles were a miserable failure.

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