Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "Why FREE college HURTS the poor - VisualEconomik EN" video.

  1. Student loans is a trap, even with conditions presented. The way I see it, let the uni be free, paid for with taxes. Rather, boost it a bit more. Provide additional assistance to people, who are of low disposable income (eg. income after base necessities like housing or food and medicine are met) and provide them with laptops (Yes, for first half of first semester, I did not have a PC and then I bought a computer, that was literally falling apart) and alter tax system, so that it is more progressive. You see, this could be seen as problem of taxation. What taxes are collected, which demographics pay the most? If tax system is progressive and education system, through it's characteristics is regressive, these effects can be evened out. Education has become a necessity for a lot of fields, because there are not many alternatives to university degree or there are regulations, which bar entry in to particular fields. For instance, you could be forced to pass a school leaving exam in electronics or get a bachelor's degree, just to run a wire as a network engineer. The rest, you can learn by watching channels like Crosstalk Solutions or Willie Howe. And this is telling, because, while you'll learn the meat of the field on youtube, you can't do your job, without the ability to run a wire and that needs a degree and working experience either directly in the field or as electrician (at least that is the situation in Czechia), meaning you're locked in to education. The way, how job market is developing, degrees are becoming more and more of a necessity, because simple work is being replaced by machines and more complex work requires education. The trend seems to be only heading towards more and more education intense fields, at least for human work. And now add on top of that, that attending a uni would either get more expensive, or in order to get "free" education, you'd have to jump through bureaucratic hoops, at the end of which, nothing is guaranteed. No, making education paid for, in spite of presented evidence, is not a good idea. Further research is necessary, because, while some root causes were clearly identified, I don't think it's all of them.
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