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One of capitalisms biggest tragedies (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by STRIKINGdebate2 to c/aboringdystopia

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[–] Pirasp 57 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Honestly, it's not just capitalism. Education is anywhere from free to really cheap in Germany, and we still don't get many people from poorer families into uni.

I see the main problem here as a sort of class divide between people with university degrees and people without. For example: if you work in a public library and don't have a uni degree you will never get more money than salary level 9 (4k/mo) just having a degree and not doing any more/different work more or less instantly puts you on 12 or higher (6k+)

This I think understandably makes people without uni degrees kind of resentful of those who do have them. And if you grow up resenting a certain group of people you are much less likely to join them.

So, no. "Just" getting rid of the cost won't magically get these people into higher education.

[–] uis 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Disagree about librerians because it is skilled profession and good librerian needs to be very educated, but yes,

"Just" getting rid of the cost won't magically get these people into higher education.

[–] Pirasp 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Sure very skilled and such. But I'm not talking about librarians. Just library workers with and without a degree

[–] uis 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Well, I don't know why not librarians library workers would need a degree and it doesn't make sense tu require them to have any.

[–] Pirasp 1 points 10 months ago

My point exactly. They don't do anything more than normal library workers, but get significantly more money

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