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In Poland we've got free public healthcare, free education (including college education), and they all suck.
Since they're being financed from public money, everything is cheap, education (especially higher education) is not about getting people to learn things, but to pass the biggest number of people so the school gets more money, you have to register like half a year before you get an endoscopy, not to mention anything more serious.
Higher education is, by its own definition, not for everyone. If everyone can afford it (when it's free of charge), it's going to be abused and it'll greatly degrade in quality of teaching.
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It's not like our health care is any better. I'd rather have shitty healthcare I pay taxes for and know that it makes that shitty health care avialable to everyone rather than shovel out thousands of USD per year for shitty health care that only covers myself that someone less fortunate than me couldn't dream of affording.
Same goes for education. Higher education is definitely not for everyone, and in the end, how effective that education is varies from school to school. Regardless, when higher education isn't available to everyone, whether you regard it as shit or not, it encourages ignorance among a society.
How are we going to ever advance, when the programs that give people the opportunities to study a subject properly are so unaffordable they'd only get the chance to if they were either really lucky or born into wealth. I'd rather pay a minimal amount for mediocre education for myself and others, than pay an arm and a leg for mediocre education for myself.
To put things into perspective: I, right now, an upper middle class citizen of the states, can not afford even a year of community college out of pocket, and that's considered the lowest of the low higher education in the US.
Also if your education system is still for-profit you just outlined why your education system isn't all sparkles and unicorns and why our education system is in such an awful place right now
Also also, education for k-12 is free in the states but the funding keeps getting cut unless the sports program is like super great and that's ass
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Slog Bait, you want to turn America into Europe.
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Europe.
With guns
Also also also, for those interested,
found a good Q&A about democratic socialism that elaborates on it really well.