Opposing Views Of Free Secondary Education

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Opposing Views of Free Secondary Education Poverty is an issue that restricts people of several resources such as food supply, housing, and transportation. When struggling with some or all of one’s bills, secondary education is often out of the question due to the steadily rising tuition cost and the inevitable outcome of student debt through loans taken out to cover the cost. Although some states provide two years of free secondary education at a two-year college, the means of paying for secondary education is only getting more difficult. This then brings the concern of social class because if someone who was born and raised in the lower class wanted to attend college, it would be almost impossible unless given enough scholarships. While …show more content…

Upon hearing the word communism, one immediately thinks of North Korea or Cuba, which both carry negative connotations. This is mainly because the present-day leaders of North Korea and its government have drastically stretched Karl Marx’s ideas to great extremes, which is the complete opposite of what Marx had intended. One aspect of Marx’s theory is that all citizens are considered equal in a classless society. Hence, janitors should receive the same pay and benefits as a neurosurgeon. This would be done by the proletariat, or working class, causing an uprising against the bourgeois, established capitalists. Eventually, if the proletariat proved to be successful in regard to ending capitalism, all citizens would be considered equal. Equality also refers to private property, which Karl Marx wanted to cease. He believed that communism is the “abolition of private property”, completely taking private property out of the government’s hands. Since most production of goods and services are done on private property, the power shifted from the government owning the means of production to the community as a whole. The work was divided between the people by each individual’s abilities, while each member of the community reaped the benefits from the other member’s work. The general idea of Karl Marx’s ideology was that everyone should and is considered equal, including in the workforce, …show more content…

This has the potential to be positive because it gives people the incentive and the will to better themselves and hypothetically going up one or more social classes. However, this exact reason could also have a negative effect on some because if one was born in the upper class, he or she may not have to ever get an education or work one day due to money being passed down from generations. Unfortunately, this can lead to large inequality between social classes. In the United States, more than 75% of the wealth is distributed between just a few corporate bankers and corporate elite. The benefit of this ideology is the consumer’s freedom to choose whichever products he or she desires, as well as choosing who to buy a particular product or service from. This is crucial because, in a communist society, it is extremely easy for one company to become a monopoly and force members of society to pay outrageous prices, just because that company can. Capitalism is special because it is currently what the United States practices today, and knowing capitalist policies, it is easy for the countries well-being to do extremely well or to go completely