The US charges for higher education unfortunately.
That is assuming that I agree with the extreme loss of time in base school education. I dont want to pay for useless things, maybe another 1% which should cover for how much time that education should really be.
I even think University should be at least half years than currently is.
But roads are there already, patching them is exponentially lower
Okay, how about you stop reading, writing, and using math for the next week? That should give you an idea of what life would be like if you didn’t “pay for useless things”. While you’re at it you should walk to the store and back for all of your needs. You don’t want to pay for those roads after all.
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Not for very long, EU is pushing to payment mode for years and eventually will happen. They already lowered the University teachers salaries to 1/2 or 1/3 to make sure everyone leaves abroad and devalue the system first. Then will push to a paid mode to increase quality for those that can afford an education.
This is a standard practice in many other things, like railways.
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I mean, you can go the way of just treating them as disposable, I guess, and just building ‘new roads’ rather then maintaining existing ones – but that sounds like a fast way to turn the whole world into asphalt as you just need more and more space to build more and more roads to replace existing roads that have fallen into disrepair enough that they break vehicles trying to use them.
ed: I’ll also say the maintenance will always cost less than building new roads as you don’t need to relevel them, clear greenery, build drainage, paint lines, etc, etc, each time.
That is not the same as “University is not free at all”.
I can learn math by books, not need teachers for that. Actually that is how i learned math. Going to school (or University) for such basic things is useless imo. A tiny fraction of school time would be more than enough to act as organizing the learning process, maximum.
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I was not talking about Greece of course.
Perhaps you could, but also perhaps the people who wrote those books can not easily self-learn like you can and so might not’ve ever received the education needed to write said books – leaving you without a book to read. The supply of information is not infinite if it is not also maintained. Gaps can quickly appear in fields and information can be lost if folks are not kept ‘up to date’ on universal concepts – leading to time needing to be invested into ‘relearning’ those things. There’s a lot out there that can’t easily be recorded into books which we take for granted. All of Youtube could up and vanish tomorrow and the amount of collective information on it that would be lost would certainly be felt by everyone, even if you ‘don’t use Youtube as a way to learn things’.
No person’s an island on this spaceship we’re riding and whether you know it or not, a high tide will raise all boats.
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You mean that now have a PhD, 10 years as post doc and 2 nature papers i assume.
True, i just argue the crazy 30% tax for mostly useless things, not that i would not pay a smaller percent for the overall society organization and prosperity.
I meant more the comparisons you were giving earlier between Unity and UE weren’t making much sense.
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I would just point that what you may feel is useless may simply be due to your unfamiliarity with what it’s being spent on and the true costs of those things to correctly maintain. 30% to maintain your specific square footage and person on this planet earth may be excessive – but it may also be necessary to keep things running smoothly for people not living in your specific square footage who do not share your specific history and economic and health status – which ultimately returns to you in terms of what goods and services are available, affordable, and accessible to you.
e: You say after all you’re fine with ‘1% for roads’? What if there’s 29 other critical things that the tax is needed for which you’re simply not accounting for? If there were, would that 30% then be justified? As an example, if you have a septic tank do you then find ‘1% for sewage and maintenance of sewage/greywater’ excess because you do not think you personally benefit from that?
I think we all agree, Unity can get 2.5% of our revenue, but they at least need to repair everyone’s roads.
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I dont use septic, so should be in my discetion if want to pay for such service.
Well, usually those people are questioning public education, who are in the need of it the most… This is genuinely mind-boggling.
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Well, how about we just go back to talking about Unity.
–Eric
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What’s to talk about? The new terms still suck and the engine is a mess.
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Perhaps the answer is “nothing,” but it’s definitely not “tax debate”. 
–Eric
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