• Spectrism@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 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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      5 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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        5 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.