hi @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io , your interviewer wasn't well informed on this. In Spain universities are not free. There are public unis (price is partially subsidized) and private ones (more expensive). Ypur point still holds for me in that student debt is not a thing here, but I think that the question being based on wrong info, erodes a bit the answer.
thanks for boosting the thread! I missed it first time.
Q: Why is the murder rate 500% higher in California than Spain?
A: Racism.
Despite (and because of) racist over-policing, law enforcement in the USA is fantastically inept at catching killers that murder Black folk. Including Black folk.
Black citizens (wisely) don't call the cops. So murderers rack up astronomical body counts.
Less than 1 in 2 US murders is solved. That clearance rate is *lowest* in neighborhoods where cops brutalize innocent Black folk the most.🙂🙃
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/01/12/as-murders-spiked-police-solved-about-half-in-2020
But is this correlation or causation? It seems almost like Black folk are suggesting that police activity *causes* more murders to happen?
We can test this (and we have!) by seeing what happens if you go into a neighborhood with a lot of murders, and get police to stop brutalizing innocent Black people, and focus only on stopping murders.
Result: You can end a murder wave in a city by getting cops to focus on murders instead of being evil.
Operation Ceasefire works.
https://www.npr.org/2011/11/01/141803766/interrupting-violence-with-the-message-dont-shoot
Q: Why is health care free even for tourists in Spain paid for by Spanish taxpayers as a human right and so incredibly expensive and cumbersome in California? Our son fell in the bathtub and we had a $12k bill for a few stitches at Stanford ER.
A: Racism.
People hate Obama's Blackness so much, that their opinion of whether universal healthcare is good or bad depends on if you call it Obamacare.
Racist folk with terminal diseases and no insurance, will vote against free healthcare. Cuz Obama.
People oppose "Affordable Care Act" more if you call it "Obamacare." 🤡
https://www.cnbc.com/2013/09/26/whats-in-a-name-lots-when-it-comes-to-obamacareaca.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/poll-obamacare-affordable-care-act-name-2017-2
Congress spent 8 years opposing Obama's plan, without any plan of their own. Their whole plan was "I hate you, and I hate your plan!"
The Affordable Care Act was Obama's big win. So they needed to destroy it. It really is that petty.
US opposing to clear public goods like affordable housing, public transportation, and affordable healthcare, is inextricably tied to racism.
Q: Why are universities in Spain free* and there is no student debt while in the USA there is more student debt than the GDP of Spain?
A: Surprisingly, also racism!
College in the US is too expensive, so loans.
Black kids are on average, lower income than white kids. Most college drop outs leave not due to poor grades, but for financial hardship. Poor kids very often don't graduate. 😢
Drop out without a degree, you still owe a huge debt.
(*Folks from Spain have clarified that Spanish universities are heavily subsidized and very affordable, but are not quite free. I'm leaving the above question unchanged, as that was what was originally asked.🇪🇸♥️)
hi @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io , your interviewer wasn't well informed on this. In Spain universities are not free. There are public unis (price is partially subsidized) and private ones (more expensive). Ypur point still holds for me in that student debt is not a thing here, but I think that the question being based on wrong info, erodes a bit the answer.
thanks for boosting the thread! I missed it first time.
Even if you graduate, you have a huge debt. But... Black kids are less likely to be hired than white kids. And if hired, are given lower starting salaries.
Deck stacked against you: Deeper in debt, and harder to climb out.
Black kids owe $7.5K more than white kids at graduation. But within 3 years, black kids owe $25K more than white kids.
