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Lokarin posted...

payroll protection

Not the same thing. Don't be ridiculous with your comparisons.

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Not my position, and I'm not even sure how you get the idea that I think education should be free. All degrees aren't equal in terms of utility, that's the reality whether you like it or not.

We want to nudge younger people towards getting an education that will benefit society in a meaningful way. But perhaps more importantly, we want to prepare the students for the job market and nudge them towards prospective, (ideally) well paying jobs.

Conversely, we want to steer students away from degrees that don't have a prospective future if it means they will end up saddled with large amounts of debt with no clear path for paying it off. (And no, I'm not advocating for the fact that education needs to be expensive and unaffordable to the lower-class, or anything like that, so don't glimpse over that nuance to frame me as a heartless person)

Of course, students are still free to study what they wish, there just won't be that incentive to reward them for picking a less valuable degree.