In the current system, education isn’t viewed as a system of societal improvement but as a product to improve the standing of the individual. Because the individual is seen as the only one who benefits from their education, the individual pays for it.
Not tooting my own horn here. So your saying as myself being an RN to want to help people that all the people I have helped doesn’t mean jack shit? Not looking for a fight just generally curious.
I think they mean the nature and true goal of higher education is not to educate, but is singularly profit and make more and more profit each and every semester. Profit above all else but hopefully, but not nessecary whatsoever, an institution’s shamefully underpaid and overworked staff has the time or energy to properly teach the next generation their area of expertise.
Higher education wants $$$ and they know the government and private corporations will issue about any 18 year old kid, fresh out of high school who has been pressued their entire childhood to either go to college or be a homeless prostitute, massive and insanely high interest “loans”
It’s to take from you and burden you with debt that can’t be undone, even in the event of personal bankruptcy. Why would this system give money away when they can loan it out for an abusive & permanent high interest loan that would make even a gambling addict blush?
Mostly because all of that is a highly-confusing tangle. Food stamps are hilariously limited in most states, same with Medicaid. Section 8/HUD will almost always make sure you wind up living in the most run-down tenement your town has, run by the shittiest landlord, who will almost always be looking for a reason to evict you - and that even assumes you don’t have to wait literal years. The current wait time for Section 8 housing in my city is something like a year and a half.
food stamps is a bizarre trap in 2025
We dont want poors getting educated
Because in capitalist America, you only get financial help if you don’t need it.
Republicans hate clever people.
Ronald Reagan didn’t like that black people could protest while in university.
At the public university I attended, there was a student health center where you could see a doctor for routine things. Not a complete hospital or anything but we weren’t totally on our own.
They do it like that in many european countries.
Fear of an educated proletariat
I was an orphan at the time, but when I was putting myself through college I had food stamps and it helped me a ton with keeping me fed. I was fortunate to have that program available to me at that time in my life. I also worked several jobs at the same time.
that’s a huge political question. of all time probably.
should we educate and train new warriors in how to not kill?
i guess it’s not going so well.
Only rich people get free stuff in the states, anyone who actually needs it is a freeloader.
College students can be eligible for SNAP & HUD.
its because conservatives lack empathy. theres literally no other reason.
It’s also the student loan racket.
Its not just lacking empathy, its antipathy.
America is run by psychopaths. Who only want suffering for anyone in need. Just how this system has murdered its way to existence.
