2012 Quebec Student Strike

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Soleron said:

mrstickball said:
Interesting that you complain about it, despite the fact your government is subsidizing it in the first place.

Eventually, governments run out of money, and their austerity will invariably effect you. Money is not infinite, but services are, if they cannot be paid for.

If the increases stops people who otherwise would have from being able to attend university, the lost productivity (could be) more than the subsidy amount. If government accounting was only done to cost almost nothing would happen.

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UK two years ago: £3000 -> £9000 sudden jump, less than a year's notice. £9000 is $14000.

Seems unlikely.  If anything we seem to have "too much" education.  Even before the financial crisis "higher education" entry jobs had gone down in pay due to excessive supply of labor pushing down base starting salary.

Really where the most demand seems to be now is in technical and two-year college type degrees found at lesser universities that were frequently visited by people who didn't have the money for college or didn't think it was worth it to spend money on college.

Like, quite honestly most subisides it seems like if anything it's causing a two-fold loss.  Both in cost to the taxpayer and later cost due to the distortion of the labor market.