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yep. watching kids squander their one chance at university education over their reliance on this shit is depressing as fuck.
i mean i dropped out, uh, 5 maybe 6 times so one chance may be overselling it
I think it's more that these days it's pretty expensive to go to university in a lot of countries. So many of the people who go and don't get anything out of it, are going to have increasingly limited chances to go at it again
Of course that's just policy, they have free university education in Scotland, so it doesn't have to be that way
That's true. Not everyone can conveniently take a year off dead for tax purposes the way I did
good for you. that's some luck or privilege.
i love when people point out the massive debt (it's almost up to 8 figures now with interest) i had to take on and will never be able to pay off and the multiple jobs i had to work during college all while having my body disassembled and reassembled as "privilege"
what did you trade for your education and survival in your 20s?
military service. wish I had more options, made better choices, or had just run away to the edges of the earth and forgotten the species sometime.
oh and I still had loan debt.
hey you haven't answered me yet. i really want to know how i was privileged compared to you
hey, not all of us spend all fucking day on fucking lemmy.
oh and hey, not in any way obligated to explain jack shit to you. what do you need, a fuckng map drawn in crayon?
in fact, get fucked with that attitude, I've said all I fucking need to. I'm not going to think for you. but nice bragging about all the healthcare you got, that's fuckin sweet privilege too
ah, so you were willing to trade other people's lives for your education. got it. nothing of your own. nice privilege. thank you for your service!
you should probably go back to school again, I can see round 7 might be needed for someone with that kind of comprehension.
get fucked
you're the one who thinks dying is a privilege, but y'know. you decided to kill people for benefits. anyways, Thank you for your service!
try not to flunk out of uni on your way to the next time you repeat that clever retort kiddo.
flunk out of uni? oh gee wow. you decided to it was worth trading other people's lives (and you knew they were going to be brown) for your benefits, remember? you displayed your values and thus your value