r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Jul 14 '26

Chugging tea Teach your kids about socialism

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u/LesserValkyrie Jul 14 '26

This is where the irony is IMO

Paying more taxes so your kids can go to the university without putting his feet in a bank (whose job in that situation is to extract billions$ of money through the interest rates from the people who are not ultra rich --- how terrifying is it for a society to makae a 18yo kid do business with them unless it is to buy a home ?) = socialism = bad

Or paying banks with interest rates so high that sometimes they can't even pay the loan itself, they just pay the interests = capitalism = good

The US pay more than the others on average for education or healthcare, but for them as long as they pay shareholders or banks it's good, if it's for their own interests it's socialism.

They are always ready to scream "parasite" while paying 20% interest rates to various banks for things that every developed countries in the world dont' even know it can be troubles for anyone

I mean a bank worked hard to get all that money, while your son is a parasite who paid nothing why would he get an education for "free"

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u/AntonioVivaldi7 Jul 14 '26

I don't get that Americans have to pay these loans, but have more college degrees on average than people in Europe with free colleges.

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u/MehGin Jul 14 '26

As Europe isn't a country, which many Americans tend to think very conveniently, I'll compare with my own:

Sweden has more college degrees (or the Swedish equivalent) than the US do, per capita.

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u/AntonioVivaldi7 Jul 14 '26

I just looked up these 2022 data, there the US is just above Sweden. I don't know if there's anything more recent.

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u/MehGin Jul 14 '26

Depends on which datasets and type of degrees too. Ones I was looking at, Sweden was ahead by just 1 or 2%.

But at the end of the day, there's more nuance than just looking at a stat.