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> when education is subsidized, you're implicitly making the decision that it's more important to pay for that education than to pay for e.g. more help for the homeless, Not everywhere. Next to no homeless people here in Scandinavia yet education is universally available at almost no cost to the student. The US is richer both in absolute terms and per capita so lack of money is presumably not the reason for the diffe…
> Next to no homeless people here in Scandinavia Hmm I wonder why such a cold and rich region has no homeless people...
Per capita wealth is greater in the US and large parts of the US are considerably colder with much worse weather in the winter.