#i can talk to people who are conspiricy theorists and also quote the bible verses back at them to prove that the bible can be interpreted

[jasperskywalker]

Hey, if college was free, imagine if you could like learn something for fun? Capitalism has literally ruined learning things that are useful across all aspects of life. Aand you know what? It's made us dumber as a society.

Guess what you do in university? You take a VARIETY of courses, not just double down on one thing. It helps you be interested in things later in life. It could help you with your volunteer position at a soup kitchen because you learned a bit about counseling or psychology, and that helps you interact with people with mental illnesses visiting the soup kitchen. University has SO many practical applications and I think it's extremely sad that the expense has ruined the enjoyment of learning.

It also ruins the enjoyment of your job too. Because you spent thousands of dollars learning how to do it, and if you don't like it, you can't just go back to school easily and learn a new one.

I desperately wish that I could take more university courses. I loved learning "useless" things.

"But if college was free, then people would abuse that and get useless degrees" hell yeah I would! If I could go to college without debt I would make it my job to get a degree in every little thing that interested me. I'd get a doctorate in film studies. I'd have a bachelor's degree for every science I like. I'd try to learn at least 5 languages with varying results. I would learn something "useful" like coding and then follow it up with a ""useless"" degree like art history. I'd be the world record speed run holder for getting every degree possible.

But I can't afford college without going into massive debt, so instead I spent the last 5 years trying to figure out what I am passionate enough about to consider going into debt over, because unfortunately being passionate about everything is extremely expensive to pursue.