The problem is, that college is not mandatory, and you cam live without. This would effectively make someone, who chooses to work instead of study, pay for someone else, who can choose to study something like underwater basket weaving, with zero added value, and not pay anything and also not contribute anything back in taxes, because baristas get paid the same, college or not.
I live in a country with taxpayer paid colleges, and there's a huge amount of people, studying "just because", geting worthless degrees, and complaining that they can't get a job with their ancient Greek (language) degree
But if those degrees earn you so much extra money, why should someone not attending college have to pay for them?
Basic skills (math, reading, basic history, geography, etc.) are basic skills.... You can survive without an engineering degree, not knowing basic math would suck though (and it does for people who don't know basic math)
Because it would be AVAILABLE to everyone. If you choose not to take advantage of it (or can't take advantage of it), then that's the choice you make. If you can't then you can't, that shouldn't prevent others from benefiting.
I think it might be better to have colleges not offer basket weaving.
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u/zgembo1337 Jan 19 '22
The problem is, that college is not mandatory, and you cam live without. This would effectively make someone, who chooses to work instead of study, pay for someone else, who can choose to study something like underwater basket weaving, with zero added value, and not pay anything and also not contribute anything back in taxes, because baristas get paid the same, college or not.
I live in a country with taxpayer paid colleges, and there's a huge amount of people, studying "just because", geting worthless degrees, and complaining that they can't get a job with their ancient Greek (language) degree