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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-03-10 07:09 pm

[ SECRET POST #2988 ]


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Re: Problematic academic disciplines

(Anonymous) 2015-03-11 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Only in the US. The financial disparity is less marked in many other countries.

Re: Problematic academic disciplines

(Anonymous) 2015-03-11 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Homeless people go to college in your country then, huh? No wait, your country doesn't have homeless people, huh? The only place with that much ~financial disparity~ is muurrrkuuuhhhh

Re: Problematic academic disciplines

(Anonymous) 2015-03-11 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
Different issue. Homeless people aren't born homeless. Social mobility isn't about everyone becoming financially solvent, it's everyone having the chance to be. People can still end up on the streets in any country.

Re: Problematic academic disciplines

(Anonymous) 2015-03-11 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
SA Oh and yeah, America is pretty awful for social mobility. But please don't take my word on it, you can google scholar search numerous papers in peer reviewed journals. Including a really interesting one from the researchers at Harvard about how America is now an Oligarchy (you might want to look that up - hint: it's not a good thing).

Basically, while congratulating yourselves constantly you have managed to build a new aristocracy for yourselves (the rich) who control the political power, reinvent the slave trade (the penal system), and reduce your poor to levels of living almost on par with the workhouses of Victorian Britain.

Woo. Yeah. 'Merica.
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Re: Problematic academic disciplines

[personal profile] making_excuses 2015-03-11 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Children aren't homeless in my country, no. Everyone can go to college in my country, heck you will get money from the state to go to college, also High School, tho less for high school than college.

Even adults will if they want to get help to get an higher education, all they have to do is show that they are actually interested. And except extreme cases (usually drugs are to blame) very few people live on the street, because we have city/state owned housing and social security that gives you enough money to live by - no matter what.

There are most definitively children living on the street in Norway to, but none of them holds a Norwegian passport, because all you have to do to get a roof over your head as a Norwegian citizen with a child is to go to Social Services and they will put you in a hotel if no apartments are available, because my country understands that it is really fucking important that children have a home.

And sure you can probably find some extreme cases of people not having a roof over their heads, but it is a one in a million thing and something we as a fucking society try to stop happening.