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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The only expense for school besides the usual stuff(paper and pencils and such) were textbooks.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Idk about you, but while I was getting my free engineering degree in Norway I still had to pay for rent and food.

    In principle, I could have studied part-time instead of full time, while working some job that doesn't require a degree, but I don't see how that would benefit anyone. Regardless, even if you have housing and food covered while studying, you still need money for books, paper, a computer, etc. so either you need a job (which, for a lot of degrees, means you'll be studying part-time), or you need a loan.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You don't need a loan, you need somewhere to live and food

    Maybe students just get free dorms and a meal plan by default, and we work that into the cost of education and pay for it as a society

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    I would be all for that. But at that point we're talking about a restricted form of UBI (which would be nice), and a significant restructuring of how parts of society work.

    I'm saying that the way society works now you need a loan to finance housing and food while studying. I'm also saying that's not an inherently bad thing, as long as the loans aren't exploitative. That loan lets you use money that you earn back once you get your degree (given that the system works as it should, which in this case it largely does where I'm from).

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