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Vansh Patel on Give me Your Opinion: Do colleges redistribute wealth?

Give me Your Opinion: Do colleges redistribute wealth?

Claims and stances

0:00 Vansh Patel strongly supports: Colleges operate as a system of wealth redistribution because they charge students flat fees for services (such as health, transportation, and recreation) that not all students utilize.

Transcript

0:00 Gaines, I absolutely agree with your point that larger universities are in a sense a system of redistributing wealth.
0:08 I uh I was thinking about this, and there's a lot of people.
0:12 I'm fortunate enough to be on scholarship as a Georgia resident, but out of state students who want to come here are forced to pay immense tuition amounts along with some of these irrelevant fees that they're forced to pay.
0:26 And a lot of people simply can't afford that and are forced to go to either community college or they opt to not go to college.
0:36 And I think that system right now is keeping them out of college.
0:42 And I think that needs to be addressed.
0:44 But as I was just leaving the laundry room here, I I realized that it's not just the facilities that we don't use.
0:52 It's the ones that we actively use.
0:55 Um about five out of the 10 or 15 washers weren't operating right now.
1:03 And for them to have some of these fees and not back them up by having improper or broken machines, I think that's just unjustifiable.
1:13 So yeah, I think you made a very valid point.