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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The gouging that colleges do needs to be clawed back. It’s criminal what they do to young people with their racket. Starting lives deep in debt. [b]Shows how socialists are even greedier and less caring than heartless corporations. [/b]With technology, advanced education costs should be plummeting but noooooo… that must be stymied.
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The administrators and policy-makers who have driven and enabled the skyrocketing cost of college are not "socialists". In many cases, they are straight up capitalists who have been brought over from "heartless corporations" for the express purpose of running colleges and universities like profit-seeking businesses. In other cases, they are simply elitists who have used their position to benefit themselves through steadily increasing salaries and connections to wealthy donors and vendors.

If you want to see socialism in higher education, look to actual socialists in Europe, where college is free for most students, even at the most elite insitutations. Especially at the most elite institutions, actually -- the idea is that if you have the grades and test scores to get into the most selective schools, it is in society's best interest to ensure you access to that education since you are likely to use it to the benefit of society.

Actual socialists would never charge anyone 80k a year to attend a university, that's insane. That's a capitalist at work, comrade.[/quote]

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