Swedes are interested in that, so they vote for such policies - and they can afford it.
Americans could afford that, but they are not interested in having tuitionless education, thus they do not vote for such policies; that's okay, they simply have different priorities, such as attacking Canada and Greenland.
Hey, it’s not as simple as “vote for what you want!” when American corporations spend literal billions of dollars to ensure your votes don’t count or that the ballots are so verbose that you can’t figure out what you are voting for because of the insane amount of jargon.
I respect that America brands itself as a democracy, but it’s not. It hasn’t been for a very long time. We’re subject to the whims of the ruling class.
Hah! I wish that I could use verbiage as an excuse for Trump’s election. Unfortunately, that part of the ballot is a check box next to a name. There are usually around 12-50 names with check boxes on a given ballot in California for different local, county, and federal positions.
It’s the propositions that offer us basic human privileges, though, and that’s why they like to keep them obtuse and illegible.
PS sorry for being so bitter earlier. I just found out that they’re cutting funding for my school. We do Alzheimer’s research, and I know for a fact most people agree with alzherimer’s research, but pundits have packaged it like we’re just farting around. So I’m sad and taking it out on everyone, sorry for that.
That, and your healthcare situation, even if I don't live there, disgusts me. The US have the economy, the people, the tech, everything, to make it work. It seems many Americans think that if you US are doing it - it HAS to be the best there is. Exceptionalism as it's finest.
I feel for you. Cannot be great starting out your adult life with that bagage.
Let me know how that goes when you have 30% of our population, because right now it’s less than 13%. Which is clearly impossible for someone like you to compute on a grand scale. Your country is a single straw on a stack and nobody gives a shit about you. Oh by the way, how strong is your cool military? Yeah, we would destroy your entire country in seconds if we wanted, but keep talking like you’re being. We don’t mind. We know who the big player in this game is!
Vietnam, yes. Afghanistan…absolutely not. Either way, we both know those were the poor choices of politicians. That has nothing to do with it. You have “free” college because other countries protect you. You are insignificant to the rest of the world. Period. There is no argument for that. Your country is weak and nobody cares what you think or what you do because you have zero impact on anyone but yourself. The US, on the other hand is the sole reason your country exists right now. It’s only because we are good human beings that we haven’t made the entire world “the United States of Earth”. If you don’t think we could, you’ve lost your god damned mind. Peace to all, man. But know your place and know your history. It’s ok that your country is weak. It’s not a reflection of you. Just don’t speak to others like your country is. Again, know your place.
i can’t tell if you’re being serious with these comments lol
you say Sweden is insignificant as if you yourself are significant at all... the Swedish live in one of the happiest countries in the world, i can guarantee you that they don’t give a shit about the US military
but hey, at least you got that strong military to “protect” you, to hell with happiness!
ehhh.. My university went out of their way to help me quite a bit. A lot of my professors were really awesome. Far better than any boss/supervisor I've ever had. YMMV
Also like, ofc professors are separate from the admin. That's sort of like saying "Starbucks is a great company because my barista is nice to me". Professors aren't the one dictating the price or how much conjoined twins have to pay.
My experience with professors is they care about as much as you care about actually learning. If you're just there to collect credits, graduate, and get a corporate job they aren't going to go out of their way for you. If you actually have an interest in the material and show you do the readings they will take the time and put in the effort for you.
Well it's just a lot of high demand fields the masters and PhDs are either entirely free plus give a monthly stipend to live on, or free plus a stipend if you teach classes. Idk to me paying $4000 seems like a lot
As if you can get help in this world without paying up. Professional help needs professionals who actually spent their time to do "help" properly. Who knew!
Look comparing a professor you are paying for mentorship to a boss' mentorship at a company you're being paid to work at is just kinda objectively stupid. Which is what they were doing
Eh, none, unless they're interning at my company or working for cheap. What exactly is your point? I think any mentorship that goes for $20,000 per year is pretty overvalued.
Top comment ITT: "Colleges are the biggest scammers; they are just a company. They don't give a shit about you, only your money."
In defense of college, mine pretty much gave me a solid ride. No debt but worked comfortably to pay it off each semester. They even helped me pay for new glasses when I broke mine. Depends on the college I guess.
Maybe that’s true in the US, but it isn’t in large parts of the world. Collage education is free in Sweden and they aren’t privately owned. It is free in many other countries as well, and in others it’s highly subsidized.
Colleges do a lot of scummy stuff but they aren’t companies. Companies are built to profit, universities are not profit driven (or at least most aren’t)
Basically, yeah. I went to a trade school, which is required for the field I wanted to work in. Only 52 schools in the US are accredited. I got in, and was one class short of passing. The class I failed was graded to a standard of only allowing 90's (90% of answers being correct) to pass. If you got below 90 on one test, you failed the entire class. I got 83, and failed the entire class.
The next semester, the college lost accreditation. No refunds. No apologies. Nothing.
Colleges want your money, by any means necessary, and there is no real world accountability for academic fraud.
I’m not paying university to be my therapist, I’m paying for an education lol I don’t care if they “care about me” just like I don’t care if the barista at Starbucks “cares about me”…I just care about the product or service given
I got paid to go to college. To take a masters degree. To take a PhD. In fact, I got paid more to study than a lot of school teachers get paid in america.
I wouldn't call college a scam, but it is overpriced as fuck for what it is and there is a lot of misleading discourse around it causing people to go for it that would be better off doing something else. I'm a hiring manager, and if I'm not hiring for one of our highly specialized roles requiring highly specialized knowledge, I honestly forget to even look for degrees because they mean so little to me. If I had to pick someone with a degree and no work experience or someone with work experience and no degree I'm probably going for the person with work experience if it's halfway decent and the role requires no extremely meaningful specific expertise. The worst thing schools do is tell kids to just get any degree they want. College is only worth it if you leave with a concrete, tangible, USEFUL skill in a specific discipline. I graduated debt free thanks to a scholarship that paid for like 3/4ths of my schooling but I don't think my bachelors degree would have been a value add in my life otherwise because I went for a stupid degree. The job that kicked off my corporate career was also almost entirely thanks to my work experience and not my degree.
Listen, you have your own anecdotal experience and make good points regarding how to go about college if you do it and how not everyone benefits. However, based on studies that don’t even take into account factors like majors, individuals who go to college on average earn $1 million more lifetime earnings than their peers who did not go to college.
All their degrees, at least in science, are geared towards teaching you mainly what they would want you to know to be an unpaid or nearly unpaid research assistant / post grad there.
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u/No-Cap-9873 1d ago
Colleges are the biggest scammers; they are just a company. They don't give a shit about you, only your money.