Got to explain to Mr 10 that one of reasons why higher education used to be (almost) free, and now isn't, is because charging for education overwhelmingly favours the rich.
Free education runs the "danger of producing an educated proletariat", which is trouble if you're trying to run a country that doesn't favour the masses.
https://archive.is/U1cuC
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I honestly don't like having to have these conversations, but Mr 10 rightly keeps asking questions about why inequality exists and what's the background behind that.
At some point I'm going to need to get more familiar with the World Inequality Database to answer specific questions.
https://wid.world/
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@pjf it also undermines that concerted attack on democracy that capital invariably wages
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@pjf could start with the tl;dr; of "because it's the logical outcome of hierarchical society" but I suspect that will just lead to harder questions 🤣
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@pjf I remember my friend paid for his first year of Uni in 1989 at the Registrars office by cracking open his piggy-bank on the counter. It was like $120 for 7 or 8 papers. Not to mention my folks going to adult night-classes at the Polytech which cost $5 (I think Key finally killed those off - can't have people learning stuff)
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@irix @pjf In 1988 I remember the most expensive bit was the student association fee.
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@pjf thanks can u pleaze upload it somewhere tor friendly? X-D
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