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In reply to the discussion: German universities to scrap all tuition fees! [View all]hunter
(38,302 posts)Fuck that.
We ought to be training people to be kind to one another, not to have too many kids, and to walk gently upon the earth.
Medical training and research is useful, many sorts of food and agricultural research are useful (wouldn't it be nice if we could rid ourselves of "factory farm" meats?), but frankly I'd rather have a wandering botanist or musician than a Volkswagen engineer or fossil fuel power plant designer.
The compromise is to give everyone access to a free education. What you see as a bad thing, majors that do not generate jobs and tax revenue, I see as a good thing.
This world needs more dreamers, teachers, gardeners, caregivers, etc., and fewer fossil fuel burning, war mongering, flesh eating monsters. We need people who can walk into a place and convince others it's a better way of living to vaccinate their children, use birth control, and be good stewards of their natural environment; to resist "selling out" to the highest bidder their hopes and dreams and the earth that supports them.