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It costs money, has long term effects, and helps people so that’s a no go.
It’s not even that. It makes people less blindly compliant to authority, and that’s absolutely unacceptable to Republicans.
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Is my math wrong? I don’t see how, in your scenario, it would cost him 100 billion. It wouldn’t even cost him 1 billion. 200k (students) x $50k/year x 4 years = $40 million.
Edit: Ok yeah my math is wrong but still not that wrong. It’s $40 billion. (That’s what I get trying to do the Calc in my head). Still not $100 billion though. He could put 500k kids through school in your scenario for it to cost him 100 billion.
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It’s the government’s job to educate the masses! But not like that! And not with my money!
They want what’s best for them, not what’s best for us. Cheap, loyal labor from countries worse, off than ours is ideal.
Let the Americans eat paste.
We can’t hire Americans **because they expect to be paid properly
Also the beauty of H1B visa people is that because they have to leave the country (or find another job) in 30 days in the even that they get fired, it means they are perfect for assholes like that billionaire. “Agree to do this or go back to that shit hole”
I sort of remember for Trump’s first term, one of his campaign promises was to set a salary minimum for H1B workers. Out of a thoroughly insane agenda, that was the one policy I liked, because it returned that program to its intent - hiring specialized experts that can’t be found here.
Of course, he didn’t follow through and do it.
Every time they get education, they keep moving to the left! 😭😭😭
Is like… “Man falsely get arrested, becomes a rAdICaL anarchist”
hmm… wonder why… 🤔
Because somehow education includes gender and social studies.
Imagine if they got educated in something useful instead. We need better batteries, so you’d think people would want to educate themselves about the research of batteries? Or literally any other STEM-field that might bring something useful and practical out of it.
We don’t need better batteries. We need a radical reform of our approach to public transportation, but your daddy Elon sabotaged railways with his Hyperloop vaporware and remote working with his yuppie-like 80-hours-a-week-in-the-office policy.
Is that some reference to my nick? I had this nick since before Tesla Motors existed, because i like scientists. If you can surgically remove yourself from your own ass you might understand which scientist it refers to.
Who said I have anything against public transportation? I’m from Sweden. We have it covered for now, but we need serious investment in our infrastructure, especially for maintaining our railways.
I don’t care for Musk in the slightest, he has shown that he is a tool of the highest caliber. I just know that when the waters start to rise, i’d rather have another welder, engineer, plumber rather than an English major or gender consultant.
🤓 I’m a real man and I love science and real men think about gender all the time. It’s scientifically proven that people are only worth what you can do for me. 🤓
Nice projection there. I hope you losers enjoy Trump, cause you deserve the stupidity of him.
Understanding peoples behaviors makes for better team cooperation. Humans are social creatures, our strength is not individual inteligence but the collective intelligence.
Then you have psychology or psychiatry and their various sub-specializations.
Psychology would be great to understand individual behaviors.
Yes? I’m not sure i understand your point.
I’m refering to the endless number of people, articles and videos saying that college educated people cant even get an interview for a job, let alone a steady employment due to their CHOICE of education. My first and very reasonable question barely gets answered is: “Well, what did they study?”
Turns out, mostly un-employable things like archeology, English/french literature, gender studies, communicator etc.
That being said, i certainly don’t feel that the more easily employable degrees necessarily bring any value to their communities. I dont know about the US, but in Sweden the most popular degree for youths today are economist. Simply because that’s the only way they feel that they will be able to earn enough money to not work anymore. Whilst i empathize with them, it doesn’t really bode well for the future if the educated people overwhelmingly work to enrich themselves.
“We can’t educate Americans if we want to keep winning elections”
“What do you need an education for anyway? I didn’t have an education and look at me now; I’m president of the United States!”
An educated citizenry is required for a well functioning democracy that benefits that citizenry. That is not in the interest of republican politicians and their benefactors.
*sounds of Lenin*
Let’s not act as if Republicans are the only ones doing this mate.
Did Democrats start pushing to defund public schools and offer “vouchers”? I must have missed that.
Yeah this is one of the cases where Republicans are clearly the bad guys
To play devil’s advocate, that’s not what they’re saying.
They’re saying that other countries education systems are roughly equivalent to the US, and in that scenario, they’d rather still be able to use their stock piled capital to pay for the best of the best from other countries to immigrate to the US.
No. Other countries education is nowhere near equivalent to the US.
From another comment of mine:
My wife woke me to the abysmal nature of education in America. Not even mad or condemning us, she’s merely puzzled. She has a degree, and 40+ continuing ed certs, in early childhood education. Oh fuck me y’all would be swole if you knew what I knew.
I’ve seen videos of her teaching in the Philippines at her own little school. In one exercise, 3-year olds are funneling colored water into containers. “What are you teaching here?” “Hand eye coordination.” Fuck me, we were thrown on the floor with blocks until we were 5, and kindergarten was still mostly daycare. These “schools” won’t allow her to teach anything. The mildest proposals are met with, “We’re not doing that.” She has been denied when asking to draw up a lesson plan.
In the Philippines, they start reading at 3. By 4 they know 4-5 letter words and have started arithmetic. And this isn’t some tiger mom bullshit. These kids are having a blast! They love competing and helping one another. One 6-yo got on stage at a graduation thing and gave a talk. I seriously doubt many full-grown Americans would be as smooth. Hopefully we’ll get the school reopened back there.
Here in America, she’s given up her career, nothing to be had but minimum wage. She could make more at Walmart and actually have benefits. She has a pretty great job now, loves it, but it’s not her passion.
Americans are uneducated and lazy as fuck. We cannot continue to coast like this or the American Century is over. Hell, it’s already over.
So your point is that other countries have better education systems? In which case, you’re agreeing with my point.
