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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social Yeah but that's not free, many people can't afford to study here. Also, minimum wage is around 1000€, and average rent in cities around 1000€. For IT, a 100k $ / year job in USA, can be paid here as 30-40 k € (before taxe), so do the math. And that's IT.

Once assuming that study loans are not popular, it's not easy to pay for your own studies each semester, and wages are not so high anyway once graduated, even if you can get a job that's not tourism related.

I'm aware that the USA is hell regarding to public services and wealth redistribution in general, there's no denial on that and I can't get to imagine how a matter of life or death it can be to get or lose a job there. I really hate that so may people have to live like this.

However, please don't imply that life is easy here. Specially with rich(er) americans moving here as expats and helping gentrify neighboorhoods, rising housing prices, promoting alienating startup and consumist culture, pretending we have to speak their language all the time, and that their new, super heavy, electric cars and their prepackaged organic food (4x expensive) are the way out of climate change and world unjustice.

Even if internal inequality is lower, and that of course we are part of the global north, this is also a south to another north. There are always many axis to look at, and usually we are blind to the ones we benefit the most.

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.