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Stupid ass private education bullshit

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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 144 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Here in Sweden education is free, and the government provides a (small) monthly payout to students.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 43 points 6 days ago

It’s one of the things I’m most grateful about living in Sweden. I wouldn’t be able to pursue higher education otherwise.

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

Social infrastructure FTW, a far more respectable way to run the ship. I'll keep with the boat analogy to use another idiom; "a rising tide lifts all boats" society shows wisdom in encouraging the kinds of conditions where their citizens can succeed without significant barriers, and improve the whole of it afterward (instead of the banking institutions which extend predatory high-interest loans) with their success. Hats off to Sweden.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Here in Sweden education is free

Free at point of service. But it's 7% of Swedish GDP, with all of that coming from public coffers.

Compare it to the US, which spends only 5.5% of GDP on education, with the majority on the heavily privatized university level.

The math gets worse when you look at student/teacher ratios, administration overhead, building construction, and spending on extracurriculars like sports.

Americans spend less overall than their swedish counterparts, but far more on amenities that have nothing to do with the actual mechanics of education.

According to my American economics education, this proves the American system is actually more efficient. Swedes would do better to adopt our model, if they want to be A#1 Liberty Whiskey Sexy, like we are.

[–] BeliefPropagator@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That link doesn't work because you can't add a %27 in a title.

[–] BeliefPropagator@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Works for me on both Jerboa and the web interface. Maybe it's an issue with your client?

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I'm using ~~Voyager~~ (edit: Thunder. I can't believe I missed that). For some reason, it adds a 25 between the % and the 27.

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago

Also using Thunder - same issue here.

25 is hex for % so it somehow url encodes it again

[–] Juvyn00b@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

My jerboa fails

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

yes you can
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding

%27 is an url encoded '

Whatever browser can't handle that has quite a serious compliance issue.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

More efficient for whom? And how? Because this is kind of hard to agree with when the efficient solution is a small amount of people with huge amounts of debt and everyone else not getting an education even if they want it.

I mean, what's the point of public coffers if they aren't being spent on public good?

I'm pretty sure you're missing some sarcasm

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 0 points 5 days ago

More efficient for whom?

That would be the people paying less tax....

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

You can't just compare GDP spendings and call it efficiency without accounting for the output.

Does the USA educate the same fraction of their population as Sweden? Otherwise it's comparing apples to pears.

Not that efficiency is the top priority in my book, but sure, it's not an unimportant metric by any means.

edit: ... am I being Poe's lawed here?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago

Does the USA educate the same fraction of their population as Sweden?

I guess that depends on how you value "Business School" as an education model.

[–] rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago

I believe New Zealand does this as well?

[–] Goretantath@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I got beat for refusing to work in a mall hanging clothing while the "school" took my pay for my education at sped ed. Sweden should think about running things here instead..