• Spectrism@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    There are capitalist countries in which tuition is free, so I don’t know if we can blame this on capitalism. Then again, most likely you’re still going to have a lot of other expenses like rent, food and possibly also books and stuff, so in that case UBI would be great.

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      4 months ago

      Free public tuition, like we have in Norway, is a non-capitalist component of an otherwise capitalist society. Paid higher education, like in the US, is a capitalist component of an otherwise capitalist society.

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        4 months ago

        Actually this is the result of strong and convincing left parties and the fear of conservatives that communism might get more approval. At least in Germany.

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        4 months ago

        I’d argue that free tuition is a proper capitalist component of a democratic country. Your government is pretty much a capitalist corporation, you pay your fees to the government in the form of taxes and you demand specific services to be provided for that fee. And if the government refuses to provide some service of specific quality, you vote a different government in. That’s pure capitalism at play.

        It’s just that some countries don’t have neither proper functioning democracy nor capitalism.