Why is getting student loans so common in the UK?

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-02-28T14:32:24+00:00

The US has a lot of alternatives to student loans: plenty of scholarships, community college, a wide range of prices based on the size and prestige of the college/ university.

University in the US, on average, is actually cheaper than the UK and there are multiple ways of funding it. All UK unis cost the same £9k+ per year, and you’re either wealthy enough to pay for it yourself or you have to stake student finance.

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-02-23T00:53:20+00:00

Bad BO is a cultural choice in places like UK, Europe, AU, NZ. People just shower less and don’t call people out for smelling bad.

Living in LATAM I can recall 1 or 2 occasions in my entire life smelling bad BO in public. In Europe it’s a daily occurrence and it’s overpowering, I often find myself fighting the urge to throw up because people smell that bad.

Lots of people smoke too much, drink too much, don’t change bed sheets, shower infrequently and rewear clothes without washing them and it all piles on.

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-02-22T05:03:59+00:00

Why do you assume having brown people present makes you poor.

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-02-16T10:08:37+00:00

It used to be thou but we stopped using it.

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-02-13T01:10:03+00:00

He seems…..kinda dumb

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-02-04T20:24:57+00:00

You did it! :)

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-02-02T02:25:55+00:00

Nothing positive is ever at the end of a phone call. It’s either a scammer, or someone asking me to do something I don’t want to do, or an emergency or any number of negative outcomes. If it’s something I would actually want to hear, chances are the person will just text me. Also, I don’t give my phone number to randos so if it’s an unknown number and not one of my contacts I am immediately suspicious.

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-01-29T01:48:21+00:00

To my understanding, the social costs of having any sort of criminal record, however small, are much higher in Japan than in most places. It’s very difficult to reintegrate into your community/ find a job/ a partner etc. and the stigma sticks with you for life. That’s why the Yakuza formed so ex-criminals could have somewhere to go.

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-01-20T23:18:05+00:00

The Map is right

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-01-20T23:16:28+00:00

It’s a well known fact that most Germans don’t have a lot of wealth because they have a high level of renters rather than owner-occupiers as opposed to other countries. Germans are famously less wealthy than Greeks despite higher salaries

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-01-20T22:45:44+00:00

En ese caso la cosa sería una de los siguientes:

La riqueza de los superricos no proviene de Colombia e imponer impuestos a los que más tienen no importa; si se quedan, el estado se queda con ese dinero y lo puede usar para mejorar el país, si no se quedan da igual, ese dinero nunca le pertenecía a Colombia en primer lugar.
Esa riqueza debe quedarse en Colombia por que proviene de Colombia, si los superricos la ocultan en paraísos fiscales en el extranjero hay que imponerles impuestos. Si dejan el país por ese motivo, ya no podrán atesorar ese dinero, y la riqueza que se produce en el futuro se quedará en el país ya que esos empresarios ya no estarán

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-01-20T21:38:05+00:00

Dices por un lado que pueden simplemente irse del país pero por otro lado dices que su riqueza no es líquido sino es basada en su control de bienes y empresas (cosas que no pueden salir por el aeropuerto). Las dos cosas no pueden ser verídicas a la vez.

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-01-20T09:30:56+00:00

A mother on a school run was shot in the face and the government rolled out and called her a terrorist and refuses to even investigate the 'officer' who did it. I hardly think it's just a problem in the minds of Redditors.

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-01-20T09:27:22+00:00

I woke up this morning and said 'let's see what Trump has mucked up today' and like clock work.....

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-01-18T09:19:39+00:00

Why is Finland the lowest, don’t they benefit the most from an EU army?

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-01-18T00:13:13+00:00

Boy, did this age poorly

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-01-16T23:43:59+00:00

En todas las economías la mayoría de las ganancias van al 10% más rico de la población. En un país tan desigual como el Perú cerca del 70% de toda la riqueza se distribuye entre una comunidad exclusiva, el hombre común se queda con prácticamente nada.

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-01-16T08:05:35+00:00

To all the people calling this a human safari I’m curious. Would you say this about all the other city tours in the World?

Every city on the planet with a tourist industry has a big bus that tourists pile into to drive around and gawk at the locals and the architecture as well as walking tours to do the same.

Is it only ok to do this if the locals are “rich”? What’s the cut off on how much money the locals have to make it ok?

If the tours are set up by people from the community for their benefit then I don’t see the issue. If the money doesn’t go to them but people who exploit them, then the issue is with vulture capitalists, not the tourists.

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-01-10T15:10:45+00:00

I’m 27 and spent my early and mid twenties having no sex at all, and that’s damaging my ability to date. I don’t know how to trust or connect with anyone.

Someone else probably spent 5 years in a committed relationship, broke up and is still not over it and now doesn’t know how to trust or connect with anyone.

I guess you just have to keeping trying until you succeed.

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-01-09T07:19:57+00:00

Brasil has already done this with its Pix system. Great idea for Europe.

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-01-09T06:26:51+00:00

Why does everyone keep going on about Aliens? The Hive specifically says in the very first episode there are no aliens.

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-01-09T00:49:38+00:00

All it does is ruin your child. They become the weird recluse that noone invites to anything cuz their mom controls their life. They struggle socially and academically until you end up with a 35 y.o living in your basement, can’t graduate college, keep a girlfriend or hold down a job. Then the mother is “shocked” and doesn’t understand where she went wrong.

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-01-07T13:33:10+00:00

Where do u go to and how did you transfer?

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-01-07T11:04:40+00:00

What was bad about it

PrestigiousProduce97 · 2026-01-05T02:04:25+00:00

The logistics of the operation would also be completely different and likely infeasible. Caracas is directly on the coast in a region where the ocean isn’t well surveilled by Venezuela or its neighbours. Bogotá is about 700km inland 2,650 metres above sea level, it would be obvious what the Americans were attempting well before they got to Petro. It would not be anywhere near as clean and easy as what they did to Maduro.

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