I always hear liberals saying school should be free then I hear the counter argument "well who is going to pay for it??"

I always hear liberals saying school should be free then I hear the counter argument "well who is going to pay for it??"

but why is school so expensive in the first place?

Faculty and programs cost a lot. I think that they pay for guest speakers as well.

Jews

They also have to pay for yearly software licenses from what I remember. Programs like Matlab, 3ds Max, and photoshop cost a lot.

Guaranteed student loans

How much does a guy who won the lottery care if he's being overcharged for his ferrari?

JEWS

Because they have a high demand. Kids are too stupid to go into trades, work for themselves, or entrepreneur new products.
They hold a social and government backed monopoly on people's terrible choices.

The schools get free money from the government, why not?

at no point did the public school system delete inbred trade skills that the children would have in the first place if the school system did not exist?

your trust fund

because (((R1 Professors))) are fucking parasites, and the whole thing is a publishing and PR racket.

Shillary can't get those speaking fees without those high costs.

And because fuck you, that's why.

Also consider that a degree has more value if other people don't have it. The more people with degrees the less they are all worth.

The world isn't the untied states

Because the government pays for it.

This is literally the reason, I've worked in an admissions office and overheard the dean talking about how without fulfilling some stupid diversity quota from government he "can't get our free money this year." He was talking about subsidies.

If university was "free" it would cost about twice as much and have the same standard of education as a high school.

Once upon a time our high schools were private and their quality of education was superior to universities in other countries. This is why baby boomers could get hired right out of high school and earn a home in a few years. They ruined that for us by making it "free".

Now they want to do the same thing to universities.

We'll have to invent another level of schooling above college/uni just to train people properly.

Yes I mad.

the loan system has guaranteed that pretty much everyone is going to go to college, and incentivizes universities to increase the cost of education since loans will match that amount. It also encourages universities to drop the level of education to ensure that they get as many people as they possibly can into their specific school.

It's to the point where masters degrees are pretty much becoming worthless

The global financial system/USD reserve standard broke back in 2008. In order for the corporations to avoid a complete economic collapse they needed to shift their debts onto the public, and inflate the values of the $ their debts are denominated in so we're all stuck in the same mess, effectively eschewing their responsibility to repay.

So, you see governments the world over subsidizing things like college, auto loans, mortgages, trying to burden their people with as much debt as they can so the corporations debts become smaller in comparison. Then you have bailout/bail-in plans which washes away ALL debts, public and private.

It's jubilee, free stuff for everyone, but mostly as a way for the elite to escape unscathed. Trust me, the elite aren't going to hold onto their $'s the way Joe Schmoe will. As soon as the markets start to break down as the $ is abandoned they'll have moved into gold, bought houses, get stake in private companies, etc, and leave the rest of us holding a big bag of deteriorating paper.

Get some gold now. And some bitcoin if you like risk. Things are going to get very hairy sooner than later.

Government student loans give anyone and everyone a blank check on their tuition.

Highschools push the narrative that you must go to college, so millions of people who shouldnt be in university are in university, and there is very high competition to get into university.

Because of these two factors, schools can charge as much as they like know in that the government will foot the bill and students will pay no matter what the size of the debt they take on.

damn bro ur so right bro

seriously people it's all part of the same scheme, PAY ATTENTION

would you teach a class full of niggers 5 days a week for free?

Assuming you're talking about colleges and such, it's because 1) they're for profit businesses, 2) the government hands out student loans like free money, and 3) the vast majority of people have been taught they HAVE to get a higher education because traditional trades are looked down on and therefore you have a huge goddamn amount of the population trying to make their way through college just for their toilet paper degree.

So they can charge whatever the hell they want and people will still pay for it.

Retards.

I live in Argentina, it's a shit problem with 99 problems, but SJWs runnin universities ain't one of them, you wanna know why?
because our education being state backed guaranties meritocracy as not only the spoiled children of the super rich can afford it.
And the fact that we are a shoit country forces people to have sink or swim mentality, either we study natural science and get ahead in theworld, or we study social sciences and live as parasite of the state and our parents for the rest of our lives, since the bast majority of people do not have a reliable state or parents to use as safety net, the vas majority of our students dive head first into anything but social studies.

in other words: if given the chance to improve themselves, poor people will go for STEM, rich kids on the other hand are lazy edonis so they just take social scinece merely to not become a neet, although proffecionally speacking, what they apport the same to society as any neet would do, probably less though, neets write FAQ make vydia speedruns and usually do not advocate for censorship

SUBSIDIES OF CONSUMPTION INCREASE DEMAND

IT DOES NOT INCREASE SUPPLY

THE RESULT IS AN INCREASE IN PRICE

SUPPLY OF EDUCATION IS ARTIFICIALLY LIMITED, EDUCATION IS A GOVERNMENT CARTEL, IT IS ILLEGAL TO OFFER A 2-3 YEAR BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN, FOR EXAMPLE, ENGINEERING, IF IT DOESN'T INCLUDE BULLSHIT LIBSHIT GENERAL EDUCATION CLASSES

IF THERE WAS NO REGULATION OF EDUCATION, IT WOULD BE MUCH CHEAPER

IF IT WASN'T "RACIST" FOR EMPLOYERS TO GIVE YOU AN IQ TEST, THEY COULD USE IQ TESTS TO SCREEN POTENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR TRAINING. INSTEAD OF GOING TO SCHOOL FOR FOUR YEARS, THEY'D GIVE YOU AN IQ TEST, LOOK AT YOUR OTHER QUALIFICATIONS (E.G. BASIC JOB TO PROVE BASIC COMPETENCY) AND THEN TRAIN YOU WITHOUT 3 YEARS OF IRRELEVANT BULLSHIT. IQ TESTS ARE BANNED BECAUSE BLACK PEOPLE HAVE LOW IQS AND IT'S "RACIST" TO HIRE FEWER BLACK PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY'RE STUPIDER ON AVERAGE

THE CONSUMPTION OF HEALTHCARE AND EDUCATION IS HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED, INCREASING DEMAND, HENCE THE MASSIVE INCREASE IN PRICE RELATIVE TO OTHER GOODS AND SERVICES IN THE ECONOMY

THE SUPPLY OF DOCTORS, HOSPITALS, AND MEDICINE IS SIMILARLY LIMITED BY LOTS OF REGULATIONS

USING ALL CAPS AND REDTEXT BECAUSE EVERY OTHER ANSWER IS SHIT AND THIS IS LITERALLY ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW

IF THERE WAS A FREE MARKET IN EDUCATION, 95% OF IT WOULD BE DONE ONLINE AND YOU COULD GET A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING OVER THE COURSE OF 1.5 YEARS OF CONSTANT SCHOOLING FROM YOUR HOME

ONLINE UNIVERSITIES WOULD COMPETE TO PROVIDE THE MOST VALUABLE CERTIFICATIONS, THIS MEANS PROVIDING THE BEST EDUCATION AS EFFICIENTLY AS POSSIBLE, QUALIFIED GRADUATES = INCREASE IN PRESTIGE = GREATER DEMAND FOR ENROLLMENT

/bread

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Pat "THE CANNON!!!" Buchanan proposed STEM degrees be with 100% free tuition but they would be a limited amount (so the spending wouldn't get out of control), would only be for public colleges and the slots would be competitive.

To offset the costs he proposed taxing "useless degrees".

This would give incentive so we'd have more mathematicians, scientists and physicians and less English majors and doctorates in gender studies.

Nigga, you blue pilled as fuck.

SJWs control universities 10 times worse than the US, hell la UBA is crawling with legit communists. Pedazo de pelotudo.

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Depends on what "useless degrees" are.

anything that doesn't include classes on how diversity is not only good but necessary in this changing world that we live in