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Originally Posted by dyna mo
the answer isn't obvious between the Iraq war or sending 100s of thousands of Americans to gain a higher education? come on.
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yes. on paper, it is obvious investing in free higher education is a winner vs needless war.
my point is more about the state of that higher education. College is a semi-debacle today. Students who work hard at studies, they will be fine. But the average students? & much worse, students who take on giant debt, & drop out/fail out of college? They are the worst off, imprisoned in a financial jail with no degree.
Not clear public financing is the answer, when the cost model in colleges is out of control. The administrations are like double in size per student they used to be, for what? i cant think of anything useful so much top end bureacracy does at colleges. Much of these jobs are patronage jobs, political jobs. Like that loony professor in Missou who called for muscle to oppress a journalist, & the professor is a journalism professor! Those are the types of people making big paychecks, & tenure, at college.
college is a disgraceful mess, & until the bloat is taken out, not worth public investment, as the money will certainly be squandered on studies on how lady gagas music influences pop culture, crap like that.
& none of this is partisan, like how colleges have majors to train students to be professional victims & make money accusing people of racism & sexism all their life. & how colleges themselves create thousands of jobs for professional victims to endless perpetuate social division in our country, focusing forever on past struggles instead of advancing solutions. solutions would put the PC careerists out of a job, so think of the PC people like defense contractors, who need endless culture war to make war profits.
college is good for getting high, getting drunk, & getting laid. The gateses & the zuckerbergs & the steve jobs types have better things to do, & drop out.
