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Originally Posted by jinx
You worked hard for your degree and you should be proud of it and all that it stands for for you - and I really don't think anyone should be able to take that away from you just because they think it would benefit them. That's my point. [b]If you think it was a waste of time getting it because you can't pay the rent with it - why did you?
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I didn't say it was a waste of time. I said I gained nothing tangible. I gained plenty of intangible things from it. And I was able to do it because my government subsidised my education: paid for by progressive taxation. Without that progressive taxation it would not have been subsidised. Without that subsidy I would have had no access to such higher learning. University would be far too expensive for the likes of me, a working-class woman with no property to borrow against and no savings to call upon.