Another Brick In The Wall
In Japan, the university charges a small fee. This fee is subsidized by the government and is around 600 dollars/semester, depending on what subject is studied. A student who can’t afford it but have the abilities to study at the university gets scholarships and governmental support.
That’s excellent! That means that people will pay select education carefully and the university won’t be just some kind of place to go to when people can’t get jobs.
The universities in Sweden are free. According to the simple economic “supply and demand” curve, the supply of university educated people is greater than the demand. The problem is when you also have people who studies subjects that doesn’t lead to jobs, for instance philosophy. It’s not free to go to university, so why shouldn’t people pay for that?
The funny thing is that the fee in Japan is that it’s cheaper for married people. Talk about discrimination, this fee has nothing to do with the fact that it’s cheaper for the university to have married couples. This fee is a way to trick people into marriage.
Another brick in the wall is a geat video. I published the video on the blog but I realized that I had done som miss spellings so I had to change it. So the video is deleted from the blog now (I hate to blog in beta).
posted by Diana Chavlah at 4:15 p.m.
2 Comments:
The tendencies of supply and demand suggest that imposing just a small price greatly shrinks demand.
The marriage issue is another huge can of worms. In the US there used to be a "marriage penalty" where middle class married people paid more federal taxes. I think the trend n society though is to prefer married people to unmarried. I believe marriage should not exist in any legal context and should be left as a relgious thing. Having a "partner" or four should be the only potential issue when it comes for example to housing, health benefits, or inheritance.
Good video.
Yes, you're right. Marriage has nothing to do with society, it's just a religious thing. But I guess that it will take too much time for the government to change the law and that it will cost a lost, so it's better to leave it the way it is.
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