A Boring Dystopia

BuT hOw WoUlD yOu PaY fOr It?!

More than this. People from different countries with qualifications are often denied to transfer their qualifications. We are missing out in more than one area here.

As soon as the selection criteria for access to higher education is less than meritocratic, it undermines the maximization of Economic outcomes because it reduces the chances for the best people for a job to end up in that job (you get maximum Economic productvity if all over the Economy the best person for a job is the one doing the job).

So even by Rightwing principles of better life by more money making, paid-for Education actually detracts from from it because it leads to less money being made (as people who would otherwise be the most capable for certain highly specialized positions are locked from reaching them due to not being able to afford the right education for it).

What paid gor Education does achieve, and really well, is making sure children with high-middle class and upper class parents inherit their priviledges, no matter how inept they are.

It's basically Feudalism extended to cover the Burgeousie, which is why you see this kind of thing deeply entrenched in countries with barelly reformed monarchic systems such as the UK.

Please. Think of the shareholders!

Why would the elite class want the plebs to learn medicine or law?

Just you try and open a state law school or med school in these times. It might work out but private interests are going to fight it with full force. It'll be a constant corporate media backlash about the state doesn't need any more lawyers and how much tax money it will cost.

Fighting stuff like this is why they buy tv stations and newspapers

"Passion"... What a concept!?