More money to owe. My current debt is 21k (having just come out of uni). About half of that is current tuition, the other half is the living cost loan... You feel like paying that off for me?
When they go up, it'll be 9k*3 (27k), plus the half living cost I was talking about (call it 11k)... almost 40k of debt isn't the most favoured thing in the world. Add to that that the job market isn't great (although I think it's worse than people make out) right now for graduates, and you start to realise why.
That said, overall the situation isn't that bad on an international scale if you ask me. The British education system is one of the better in the world, and ultimately, the cost is a lot less than a lot of other places.
Why should someone on minimum wage pay the keep for the future bankers, lawyers, doctors, engineers, etc? Now that is immoral.
Because those bankers, lawyers, doctors engineers etc... pay the majority of taxes by a long way compared to those on minimum wage. The top 10% pay something stupid as a proportion of total tax (not that I can remember the actual figure right now). Therefore all those public entities the minimum wage earners love are predominantly funded by the bankers, lawyers, doctors engineers etc.... who probably paid their loan back relatively quickly (with interest - common misconception, you pay interest on your student loan at the rate of inflation)
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