Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Why are American 🎓 Universities so 💰 Expensive? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

  1. The US military provides the GI Bill to veterans, which pays for tuition and a stipend for attending higher education (not only academic university, but also expensive trainings like flight school). There's also additional Tuition Assistance for those actively serving and doing courses in their off time. The education benefits is by far the biggest bait to enlist new recruits.
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  2. Although America's colleges were cheaper and at least as good when the state provided more funding. The problem is their priorities followed the Boomers, cutting education to save on what makes retirees happy voters.
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  3. It's not, but post-Tiananmen "patriotic education" ensures that Chinese students avoid exploring narratives outside what the Party says, and to rat out fellow students who try. Colleges look the other way because they're a reliable source of money, and the "teaching" of politics is really less a deliberate agenda and more a reflection of American willingness to confront and converse about politics regardless.
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  4. Because America in general is so political. If you want to avoid ideological controversy in your higher education, China's universities have plenty of seats reserved for foreigners (even then most "foreigners" there are just Chinese anchor babies raised domestically).
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  5. Not necessarily, online can do dry instruction, but for application in the real world full of humans, there's no substitute for meatspace meetings. Education is more than just memorizing formulas, it's also learning how to get others to care about your work.
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  6. That leadership probably won't come from a place that can't even openly discuss its own history. Limiting themselves to STEM fields won't help either, STEM grads tend to make for horrible managers of humans.
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  7. That's not necessarily a bad thing, going through the suck helps let the soldier narrow down what tasks are useful and what's BS (even if they say all of it is).
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  8. Uncontrolled subsidies, not questioning and limiting payouts to what college administrators say they're worth.
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  9. The USSR prioritized its STEM grads, and look where they ended up. STEM folks are notorious for being horrible at leading other humans, not to mention they often dive into solving whether could it technically work without really asking what are the wider effects of trying. China today is heading down a similar path of developing technical prowess yet undermining their efforts with toxic mistrusting relationships and an increasingly brittle society facing self-made aging, household debt, and soil pollution. If anything humanities and social sciences will become more important over time as those products are harder to reverse-engineer, they're not as vulnerable to automation, and they help focus efforts on what truly matters to humans.
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  10. That's because the government isn't putting downward pressure on the debt amounts it's forgiving, it's just paying out whatever the college bureaucracies say they're worth.
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