"Oh you went to college and got into life crippling debt to do engineering or science? :smuglord: smh you should have taken up a trade instead of dreaming. You can learn your science from PragerU instead, peasants"
This is a very thingy thing. "I don't have kids why should i pay taxes for schools" comes out of fash fairly regularly and there is a level of pig headedly foolish hyper-individualism there that is difficult to wrap my mind around.
"Oh you went to college and got into life crippling debt to do engineering or science? :smuglord: smh you should have taken up a trade instead of dreaming. You can learn your science from PragerU instead, peasants"
I'm sure nobody being able to afford to learn advanced sciences will not affect the empire in the slightest.
This is a very thingy thing. "I don't have kids why should i pay taxes for schools" comes out of fash fairly regularly and there is a level of pig headedly foolish hyper-individualism there that is difficult to wrap my mind around.
Americans have a terminal case of coconut tree brain, and refuse to believe they live in the context.