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greed and spite posted: Mon 2019-01-14 22:16:07 tags: n/a
There are 2 ways to think about socialized higher education, socialized healthcare etc.

"My MBA cost me $200,000 so if you support socialized higher education, you're a Communist and that means enemy"; "my emergency room visit put me in crushing debt, so if anyone else gets lefesaving healthcare without similar economic stress then you're Satan"; etc.

OR

"I got overcharged for my education/surgery/whatever and there's no reason for-profit cartels should be inflating costs the way they do, and everybody needs these things just like we need roads and public schools and libraries, so let's socialize those costs, if not for compassion then for sheer economic efficiency"

One of these positions is prosocial, the other is antisocial