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And who decides what constitutes malinvestment? I'm guessing there will be plenty of funds made available for tech work, what with Twitter, Ubereats and Facebook being so critical. How about the arts? How about history and culture, you know the stuff that makes living worthwhile beyond your usefulness to line the pockets of capitalists?

Or how about we just confront the problem dead on, remove the money and profit aspect entirely, and offer free college like dozens of other nations do, and have for many years, somehow without their economies imploding? Why must we sacrifice yet more of our society on the altar of profits? Fuck good investments. Fuck investors. Fuck this entire screwed up system that decides that anything that cannot be monetized is worthless.




> who decides what constitutes malinvestment?

the unemployment rate by major, assuming it wasn't already a bad investment due of the student lacking the skill or willingness to finish the studies.


> How about the arts? How about history and culture, you know the stuff that makes living worthwhile beyond your usefulness to line the pockets of capitalists?

Do you ever think about the possibility of people making art or studying history without going into tens of thousands of dollars of debt?


Considering I just said make college free, yeah I think I've considered the possibility.

Even going past that, though, if studying History can't get you a job that makes enough to pay off your debt, then why does it cost so much in the first place?




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