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Mr.Playstation said:
Nettles said:
I'm not against some government subsidization of certain college courses that are useful to society - engineering, medicine, STEM in general.But is there really any benefit to tens of thousands more (because it's free more will attend) doing gender studies, liberal arts, philosophy, photography? Seriously there are fuckall jobs in these fields as it is so where is the benefit to the US economy and taxpayers?

Students might be more prepared to enrol In courses which are traditionally harder If they know that if they fail one exam they wouldn't have thrown away thousands of dollars.

Maybe, at a stretch.But you can't deny there will be a huge rise in people doing college courses "for fun" on topics that interest them.I still think photography, media studies, gender studies, philosophy will see a surge in enrollment due to this.Why should the taxpayer fund these courses that have no jobs at the end and in my view in the case of gender studies are detrimental to society.Do we really need more fainting couch feminists like Anita Sarkeesian?