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Originally Posted by saffronleaf
2. The education sector itself can become a major driver of economic activity.
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Not if we're offering it for free to everyone on the planet.
It's just like if you argued that if we offered free healthcare paid by Canadian taxpayers to any of the 7+ billion people on the planet who wanted to come here temporarily to be cured/healed in our hospitals for free, it would boost the medical sector as a driver of economic activity.
Well, yeah, for a little while, and on paper, but that's not sustainable, and it wouldn't last long.
Alternatively, it's like saying that offering my units rent-free would be the remedy to make sure my vacancy rate is 0.00% permanently from now on. Sure, that's true, but you're missing one major element - the reason you want your vacancy rate to be low is because you want to make money, the vacancy rate in itself is not the actual goal, merely one of several possible means to it.
We want good, world-class universities, and we want them to be an economic driver, and that can't and won't happen if they're offering free education to everybody.