UniversalBasicJustice

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  • Except they are categorically not useless? I’d still be stuck in fuckstick nowhere if they were. So would many others. Thats anecdotal and doesn’t count, though.

    If someone is able to pass enough classes to get a degree without learning anything thats a them problem.

    Now, if one wants to call degrees a poor value proposition?

    Also wrong. Just because the US hasn’t had a coherent fiscal policy since before Reagan and has allowed tuition to skyrocket while milking the students for all they’re worth still doesn’t make the degree useless.

    Learning is not useless. If someone doesn’t learn anything in 4 years and accepts that degree? They’re at fault.

    If the argument is that degrees are useless because they don’t guarantee employment you can find my response at the top of this comment chain.

    WHY DO I HAVE TO CONVINCE PEOPLE HIGHER LEARNING IS AN ADMIRABLE PURSUIT REGARDLESS OF THE JOB PROSPECTS






  • Exactly my point. We (royal we, referring to a large proportion of US inhabitants) pay a privately owned corporation for services essential to living. They are allowed to extract profit via rate hikes and service cuts and are additionally allowed to develop monopolies. Dead people are a sacrifice private industry is willing to make in pursuit of profit (see: American death ensurance).

    The “separate but equal” Texan electrical grid is a textbook example of why utilities management should remain under the purview of a publicly-accountable governing body. My quip is dark because people died. Its also true. Its meant to quietly challenge the concept that a government levying taxes is tyrannical.