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In Utopia

Everything is free. Which makes it worthless.

4 Responses to “In Utopia”

  1. TS Says:

    It’s not “make college free for everyone”. It’s “make everyone pay for college whether you want to go or not (even if you’ve already gone).” And yes, it makes a bachelors degree “the new high school diploma”. Now you need a masters if you want to seperate yourself from everyone else.

  2. Toastrider Says:

    What is it about people who want to live in a magical post-scarcity society, but they don’t seem to grasp the engineering requirements…

  3. The_Jack Says:

    Toast, because if they did grasp the engineering requirements….

    It’s like how people with perpetual motion machines fall into two camps. Those that don’t grasp the physical limitations and think they’ve got a “system”. And those that *do* grasp it but are using the alure of free-icecream to fleece the rubes.

  4. Sigivald Says:

    Well, in a post-scarcity economy (utopia), literally, yes; anything truly free is a non-economic good.

    In such a state, only people who actually wanted to go learn things would take that free college, because it would have personal value to them.

    Problem is, we aren’t in such an economy [or remotely close to one], and “free college” really just means “throw huge amounts of money at the education industry to no great benefit”.

    Exactly as TS said, all it would do is make a Bachelor’s even more necessary while not actually educating those who get one, very much at all.

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