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  • Опубликовано: 21 дек 2015
  • Collegians everywhere are asking tough questions: Why is our tuition so high? Where are our jobs? Can't you see your words hurt me, you dumb piece of sh*t?
    Approximately 2 minutes.
    Written and performed by Remy. Video and graphics by Austin Bragg. Music tracks by Ben Karlstrom.
    Go to reason.com/rea... for downloadable versions and subscribe to ReasonTV's RUclips Channel to receive notifications when new material goes live.
    LYRICS:
    We're the students united and nothing can tamp us!
    we're taking our message to all parts of campus!
    The administration's who we're trying to find
    we want to know why our tuition's so high!
    So we check the yoga studio-they're not there
    The coffee shop, ice cream machine, everywhere
    the sauna, the climbing wall, pool, the high dive
    we want to know why our tuition's so high!
    We're the students united, we won't be divided
    we'll get what we want oh and don't try to fight it
    Our SAT / ACT scores are sublime
    but there still are some answers we struggle to find
    We're protesting privilege, we're marching the streets
    with the golf and the dance and equestrian teams
    We need a safe space from the intolerant
    can't you see your words hurt me you dumb piece of shit?
    We're the students united, we won't be divided
    we'll get what we want oh and don't try to fight it
    Our SAT / ACT scores are sublime
    but there still are some answers we struggle to find
    We're chanting with vigor, we're chanting with rage
    We won't accept less than a good living wage
    at a job interview we told them how we felt
    but the last thing we heard they went with someone else
    We're the students united, we won't be divided
    we'll get what we want oh and don't try to fight it
    Our SAT / ACT scores are sublime
    but there still are some answers we struggle to find
    yes there still are some answers we struggle to find

Комментарии • 430

  • @tejaskulkarni4579
    @tejaskulkarni4579 4 года назад +287

    As a college student, I have 2 demands-
    1. I don’t want a luxury resort
    2. I wonna pay for education, not for a luxury resort. Colleges, please lower tuition fees by spending less money on unnecessary amenities.

    • @ragnarragnarson9393
      @ragnarragnarson9393 3 года назад +30

      Most kids "wow! Swimming pools and free ice cream?....um....I didn't have that at home.....okay!"

    • @LucasFernandez-fk8se
      @LucasFernandez-fk8se 3 года назад +19

      If it’s a luxury resort I at least want them to give us less hw so we can actually use the “amenities”

    • @RobertoVelazquez-nb6qg
      @RobertoVelazquez-nb6qg 3 года назад +24

      That has a small impact on price, the huge impact comes from students loans that guarantee everyone can go so the demand is high no matter how high the price is

    • @McVaio
      @McVaio 3 года назад +8

      @@RobertoVelazquez-nb6qg True, but that is also the cause of the wasteful spending.

    • @nekogaming1715
      @nekogaming1715 3 года назад +4

      @@McVaio It also justifies the prices since they're looking as well at the expenses.

  • @indy_go_blue6048
    @indy_go_blue6048 7 лет назад +352

    This guy is such a genius. He should have been a carpenter; he hits the nail on the head every time.

    • @bruhmoment8108
      @bruhmoment8108 6 лет назад +15

      indy_go_blue60 last time a carpenter was this preachy, he got nailed himself

    • @kenburns4547
      @kenburns4547 3 года назад +1

      I hate The Carpenters music.

    • @dervakommtvonhinten517
      @dervakommtvonhinten517 3 года назад

      you mean its a good thing he didnt become a carpenter?

    • @arklow3482
      @arklow3482 2 года назад

      Yes, fucking gold every one.

  • @kumuppins95
    @kumuppins95 Год назад +30

    I was a college Professor for 40 years.... and I LOVE this video!!!! Fantastic!!!!!!!!

  • @russmurray4229
    @russmurray4229 8 лет назад +663

    Unlimited federal government loans enable unending tuition increases. A free market approach would crush tuition prices and eliminate wasteful spending.

    • @Vorpal_Wit
      @Vorpal_Wit 8 лет назад +57

      +Russ Murray - Limited supply meets unlimited demand, and people continue to be surprised by high price. Economic facepalm.

    • @jeremiahd2209
      @jeremiahd2209 8 лет назад +10

      +Russ Murray and gender studies courses

    • @DJCosmoDropofficial
      @DJCosmoDropofficial 8 лет назад +6

      +Russ Murray Reason TV Agrees. This is making fun of the protesters.

    • @FreeRuggedLibertarian
      @FreeRuggedLibertarian 8 лет назад +7

      Actually, technically fed aid does help U.S. citizens in this scenario because the reason that tuition is so high is because so many people from foreign countries come to American Universities because they're the best. I'm still a die hard Smithian, I just don't think that argument makes rational sense. I personally don't think we need so many college grads, so let the free market balance that. Me, personally have opted out of going to college and pursuing my education in the navy's nuclear program. So college isn't the only way.

    • @Vorpal_Wit
      @Vorpal_Wit 8 лет назад +14

      Qwerty Bastard Not strictly true. If some fields cant advance because of the lack people entering the field, the salaries/demand in that field go up due to the scarcity of talent. That's how the market works. There are also scholarships which also get allocated to fields in need by market forces.

  • @antic4mper819
    @antic4mper819 2 года назад +39

    Me realizing that my college had all this shit and I pretty much never used it...

  • @MemeGnome
    @MemeGnome 8 лет назад +94

    For a moment I thought the last sign read, "How do I laundry?"
    Thought that would be more appropriate.

    • @sevendst19
      @sevendst19 6 лет назад

      How does one even laundry?

  • @Finsirith
    @Finsirith 8 лет назад +540

    "John didn't go to college. Why should John pay our tuition?" AMEN!

    • @brovahkiin4302
      @brovahkiin4302 6 лет назад +26

      Finsirith because john, John's children and John's family profit from a state where as many people as possible can achieve a higher education (if they're smart enough) and can be productive and we'll educated parts of society.
      This argument is like saying "John has no car, why should John pay for your roads?

    • @matrixman8582
      @matrixman8582 6 лет назад +67

      Brovahkiin Exactly. If John has no car, he shouldn't pay for our roads.

    • @matrixman8582
      @matrixman8582 6 лет назад +43

      Ethan So despite making fun of him being poor, you still think he should pay for someone else's college?

    • @brovahkiin4302
      @brovahkiin4302 6 лет назад +8

      @@matrixman8582 yes because we as a society need streets. Also chances are if you have no car, you're not paying taxes in the first place.

    • @matrixman8582
      @matrixman8582 6 лет назад +40

      Brovahkinn If I'm not driving on the streets I shouldn't pay for it. There are enough drivers in the country to pay for it.

  • @ChrisSmith-rm6xl
    @ChrisSmith-rm6xl Год назад +17

    True story: Overheard at work, "We got an applicant for the position." "Do they have a degree?" "Yes. They have a BA." "Did they get it back when that meant something?" Yup. Went to college back in the 80's when the schools didn't suck so bad".

  • @rvail136
    @rvail136 8 лет назад +20

    There are several reasons why tuitions are so high. 1. Student loans. When government decided to subsidize student loans, universities decided to cash in on the money spigot by raising tuition far beyond the rate of either Cost of Living or Rate of Inflation.2. A fourfold increase in the number of non-teaching positions. The numbers of bureaucrats who have nothing to do with teaching has grown geometrically in the past 30 years. These positions do nothing except soak up all the excess cash that students with government subsidized student loans now have.3. The explosion in non-teaching related building (student life centers/safe spaces/etc.). None of this relates to education, but to the "experience" of college...and it all costs a great deal of money...4. TANSTAAFL (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) is something that we've not taught our children...someone always has to pay and it will never be the administrators...

    • @Excalibur2
      @Excalibur2 6 лет назад

      Part of it is also the fact that, for a while, college became the silver bullet to get a good job. When the good jobs without an education dried up college became the easy answer. Now lots of the jobs are just plain gone. Doesn't matter if you are educated or have skilled labor if there's only so much demand for the jobs in the first place.

  • @chexhcatialo3889
    @chexhcatialo3889 5 лет назад +26

    The reason college tuition is so high is the government meddles in the financial aspect of college, mainly by providing loans and other financial aid to nearly everyone who asks for it!

    • @dereksbooks
      @dereksbooks Год назад

      That and the bloated administrative staff with ridiculously overpaid Marxist lecturers. Cut their staff by half and cut their professorial salaries by half 😉

  • @howtubeable
    @howtubeable 2 года назад +8

    July 2022. I made the final payment on my student loans. It was not easy, but it is possible. Work, and keep making your monthly payments, even when politicians put a moratorium on collections.

    • @gd19881995
      @gd19881995 Год назад +1

      “Sucker… pay for everyone else’s” - Creepy Joe

  • @j.h.miretskay3430
    @j.h.miretskay3430 2 года назад +20

    The Burberry shirt and the “Check Your Privilege” placard - I’m dying from laughter. 😂

  • @SomeTomfoolery
    @SomeTomfoolery 2 года назад +15

    There are remy parodies I appreciate more as songs than this one, but what really hits the mark, and why I keep coming back to this one, is the background clips of real college campuses. Knowing that those are the people demanding I pay for their stay there is revolting, very rich entitled vibes. I don't live anywhere near as nice as that. Why should I be paying for it?

  • @harmonicarchipelgo9351
    @harmonicarchipelgo9351 3 года назад +30

    It isn't just facilities. A huge amount of the inflated tuition money goes to the ever expanding administration. Does the university really need a Dean of Wokeness and a Director of Social Justice?

  • @matthewrichardson828
    @matthewrichardson828 8 лет назад +45

    When he sang "We're Chanting with Vigor!" I said to my self - here it comes folks!

    • @SomeTomfoolery
      @SomeTomfoolery 2 года назад +1

      Hah, that didn't occur to me! But you were too soon; "Vigor" was not at the end of a rhyming line.

  • @ryanweeks8186
    @ryanweeks8186 2 года назад +19

    Tip from a college student:
    If you don’t want to pay student loans..... DON’T GO TO COLLEGE!!
    If you sign a paper saying you will pay it back, then you can’t complain because you agreed to it.

    • @hauntedhouse7827
      @hauntedhouse7827 8 месяцев назад

      You can always do what i did and serve in the military.

  • @boedillard8807
    @boedillard8807 3 года назад +10

    The part about them yelling and screaming while slinging swears at how they are offended by others and are stunned that others can't understand how much their words hurt is so spot on!

  • @kylezehner3648
    @kylezehner3648 3 года назад +7

    A lot of college campuses are like vacation resorts with the activities and places, it’s like getting your education on a cruise

    • @ariadhikarayendra5111
      @ariadhikarayendra5111 3 года назад

      As a non-American, I'm quite surprised about that. In my campus, there are restaurants and coffee shops, but they're one of campus's many source of income and the sports facilities are just some field and jogging track.

  • @avayu2289
    @avayu2289 4 года назад +10

    ..”Can’t you see your words hurt me? You dumb piece of $&@t!”
    Brilliant parody funny as hell!😂

  • @tw7086
    @tw7086 2 года назад +3

    Your best video of all time.

  • @Cirothecarius
    @Cirothecarius 5 лет назад +5

    I attended college from 2007 until 2011 in New York. This was just before the explosion of identity politics on campus. I saw the first stirrings of it but in general people were still fairly open-minded. However, I noticed that the deans and administrators were multiplying throughout my four years on campus. Many of them were from NYU and educated in identity/resentment politics. By the time I left I felt that something had shifted on campus towards that way of thinking, but luckily I graduated. These deans and administrators (who make much more money than the actual professors) are the ones benefiting most from rising tuition. They have also been the driving force on campus for identity politics. Professors abdicated their responsibility to oversee the affairs of their schools as most have become soulless careerists and couldn't care less about educating students. Most lazily drone on with a PowerPoint in the background. It wasn't my experience that many of them are socialists or ardently leftist, just really boring and probably better off as bankers or middle management. As for students most were clearly in college to party and hookup with people. They gave no care to their education. I saw a kid have a meltdown on the dining hall staff (most generally poor and black) because the omelet station didn't open up *exactly* on time. American colleges are farces subsidized by actual working peoples' tax dollars.

    • @joeaverager
      @joeaverager 2 года назад +1

      This. The administrators. At my alma-mater the dean's office of my major has more non-teaching administrators than some of the departments have professors and staff. And the staff isn't making big bucks either. The school would really like me to give them donations but I won't until the administrators quit multiplying and the staff salaries are lifted. Probably the same everywhere.

    • @jacobdewizard
      @jacobdewizard Год назад

      There used to be tenure and a professor's job was secure, regardless of the prof's ideology - they can't be sacked. Now, with tenure disappearing, a professor needs to play ball with the administrator's ideology or they will lose their jobs - as painfully demonstrated during the jab thing.

  • @teamkillz12345
    @teamkillz12345 8 лет назад +157

    Collage campuses today are like a combination of 1984 and Lord of the Flies performed by people who don't understand the references.

    • @Approx_99
      @Approx_99 6 лет назад +2

      Mechanical engineer here struggling to pay back 40k in debt he got from a state school with zero frills.
      Yes, I work in my field, have a family, and both I and my wife work. And yes, if I held the position I do now 50 years ago, not only would I have zero student loans, but I'd own a lake house because of the goddamn wage gap and lower cost of living.
      It's not a black and white argument. Don't think life is ever this fucking simple.

  • @justanotheranimeprofilepic
    @justanotheranimeprofilepic 4 года назад +10

    College was my shot at getting my dream job but I couldn't find a college without all those extra bullshit that adds to my tuition

  • @bassmaster867
    @bassmaster867 5 лет назад +10

    0:01 When they say "Abolish student loans!" I want to say "Okay"

  • @lausdeo4944
    @lausdeo4944 2 года назад +1

    Wait, this is *2015* !!! This feels so applicable now.

  • @franksalterego
    @franksalterego 8 лет назад +34

    I don't suppose anyone has noticed... That when gov't subsidizes something, the costs magically rise... Why do you think universities have a full-time staff of office workers helping students get gov't loans?
    To help students?.... or, to help THEMSELVES?
    Frank

    • @Excalibur2
      @Excalibur2 6 лет назад +2

      franksalterego there are pros and cons to this. If colleges were held accountable and people made smart decisions this lending would make America more competitive with other countries. Investing in the population seems like a no brainer.
      Only sad thing is people don't always choose valuable careers at reasonably priced colleges and there aren't enough skilled jobs.

    • @IMissLiberty
      @IMissLiberty 4 года назад +1

      Wait a minute! Don't they subsidize unemployment?!! And they tax employment, prosperity, and good luck!

    • @colibriverde
      @colibriverde 3 года назад

      Actually, the cost is higher now because state governments are NOT subsidizing education as much as they used to. www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/state-higher-education-funding-cuts-have-pushed-costs-to-students

    • @royce9018
      @royce9018 2 года назад

      Yeah, the portion of an average education has drastically dropped since you and Jesus were hanging out together. But at least you tried to make a contribution to this topic…

  • @tylerstagge7465
    @tylerstagge7465 3 года назад +9

    (1) Brilliant as always. (2) I just noticed the “abolish student loans” sign at the very beginning - clearly she’s not getting much in exchange for all that debt, because I’m sure that’s not what she meant :)

  • @tangledline
    @tangledline 8 лет назад +14

    Most students never paid bills, taxes, mortgage, gas, insurance and everything else their parent's (and other responsible adults) did. So it is completely understandable why they do not understand how life works. I said "Most" for you safe zone, words hurt me people.

  • @fumblewolf
    @fumblewolf 8 лет назад +39

    How do you do it, every time, you sum things up perfectly and in such a subtle, clever and funny way.

  • @sloanlance
    @sloanlance Год назад +1

    Presented like someone who didn't have good enough grades to enter college or failed to keep grades high enough to graduate from it.

  • @billschlafly4107
    @billschlafly4107 Год назад

    I graduated college in 1996. Thank goodness!

  • @jacklogansmith7646
    @jacklogansmith7646 3 года назад

    Remys in Tutus might be the funniest visual to come out of ANY of these videos, not going to lie.

  • @MissMalevolent
    @MissMalevolent 8 лет назад +11

    Remy is brilliant.

  • @donttreadonchuck8006
    @donttreadonchuck8006 8 лет назад +6

    This is gold.

  • @WeAreWafc
    @WeAreWafc 5 лет назад +4

    Students need to be educated on why their tuition is so high. But real education is hard to come by.

  • @audreyhunter6099
    @audreyhunter6099 Год назад +1

    This song was ahead of its time

    • @No.00000
      @No.00000 4 месяца назад

      More like smart people knew a crisis was coming a mile away

  • @gary_beniford
    @gary_beniford 8 лет назад +57

    there's a socialist alternative group on my campus that wants to march against student loans and make college free. they say the only thing we have to lose is our debt but they don't seem to realize that in a socialized system our college will be even worse off. the real motto should be the only things we have to lose is our debt and the quality of higher education for years to come.

    • @Peteruspl
      @Peteruspl 8 лет назад +13

      +jump oricakle
      In my country we have free public colleges (they are actually also better than private ones) it's pretty ridiculous that some plumber was sharing expense of my education. Why should he be on the hook for service I was getting? Yet that's how it has to go if everybody is taxed and proceeds fund education for some limited subset of these people.
      When corporations socialize costs (of course with the government bailing them out, or giving them special privilege) keeping the profits everybody understands the problem. Yet the exact same practice turned to college students and many become immediately clueless of the conflict of interest.

    • @atticusfredericks6210
      @atticusfredericks6210 8 лет назад +15

      +Nathan-DTS FREE health care ? No one pays for it ? It's healthcare that just drops out of the sky and everybodyshouts hallelujah ?

    • @MilwaukeeF40C
      @MilwaukeeF40C 8 лет назад +5

      +Nathan-DTS Those wonderful places with "free" higher education all but shut out a
      majority of people from acceptance around the equivalent of freshman
      year in high school.

    • @MilwaukeeF40C
      @MilwaukeeF40C 8 лет назад +2

      Nathan-DTS
      And on the flip side, health services are shittier overall. Good job.

    • @caltikikiki8216
      @caltikikiki8216 8 лет назад +3

      +jump oricakle We have already lost the quality of education. I was in a fiction writing class, we had to submit a short story every week for the first four weeks of the class, the rest of the semester was supposed to be spent writing the outline for a novel, we never got there. The first week the teacher (hired to teach the one class, he was not a professor), failed more than half the classes' first round of submissions. He passed out copies of everyone's work, we were supposed to read and critique each others work, the idea was we would read each others stories and give feed back about what worked and what didn't. We were going to read each others' stories and look for things such as character inconsistency, plot, use of symbolism, what one would think you would do in a class that was geared towards writing a novel.
      We never got there. Half of the stories I read that first week had no capitalization, misuse of punctuation, and almost no adherence to even remedial rules of grammar; a ten year old would have been able to put a complex sentence together better than half my class. And it wasn't Kerouac influenced, nor was it the free consciousness of Joyce's Ulysses, it was just a class half full of people who should have been stopped in their tracks before they reached high school, never mind college
      After this non-tenured teacher, who was very passionate about writing, failed college students for submitting work a nine year old would have been embarrassed about, well I guess he almost lost his job, because we began to have remedial grammar lessons for half the class. We no longer had to let other students read our work, even though it was posted in the syllabus that peer criticism was a major part of the course; it was too offensive to be called out for not having the basic skills to be in the class; we no longer were required to submit one story a week, (That was too hard, I can't write three pages a week and read 19 other peoples three pages every week too!!!!) so only one three page story every two weeks... for the rest of the semester.
      So I went to college and got to sit through lectures about how to use pronouns (If you use someones name in a sentence you cannot then refer to that person as they, if you cannot stretch it's out to say it is then you use its), when you use a quotation mark and my favorite and this one is a quote from my teacher "Do not put (flashback) at the start of a change of perspective.
      The saddest part is that almost all of my fellow students were not foreign, they were American. The pathetic part is that I spent almost my entire school career in Special Ed, in a room with the desks bolted to the floor to keep classmates from throwing them at teachers, and yet in college the class was dumbed-down to match the majority of mainstream 'college ready' American's.

  • @nostalgiakarlk.f.7386
    @nostalgiakarlk.f.7386 3 года назад +2

    University students are some of the most privelaged members of society.

  • @HotVoodooWitch
    @HotVoodooWitch 5 лет назад +2

    Parents paid tuition back when I graduated high school. They started putting money aside when the kids were born.

  • @tomc3677
    @tomc3677 6 лет назад +5

    Remy is unbelievable😂😂😂

  • @jacklogansmith7646
    @jacklogansmith7646 5 лет назад +1

    As a current college student, that one image right at 0:45 of the guy handing a plate over the glass is one that could have been captured at my college (think we have one or two dining spots that could have come from).

  • @jonathansupple3227
    @jonathansupple3227 8 лет назад +6

    Love the videos Remy! Keep em coming!!!

  • @Person-ro6uh
    @Person-ro6uh 2 года назад +5

    I have student debt, and I have had to take time off but am pretty close to going back and finishing my final year of my degrees. Student debt erasure would help me and my budding family so much. You have no idea.
    But too fucking bad. I made a decision to borrow money for something I wanted (a college education), which i absolutely never believe should be free due to government funding. Not your electricians fault you wanted a fancy degree and he started busting his ass right out of high school, why should he pay for you? Plus, do you really want the government controlling our educational institution even more than they already do? (So much of scientific research is government/military funded. I worked on a few projects and every single one was at least partially if not fully funded by the government or military.)
    Just because it would make your life easier doesnt mean Bob should be paying for your college. Itd be easier for me if Bob paid for mine. But that doesnt mean its right.

    • @billschlafly4107
      @billschlafly4107 Год назад

      Debt sucks... It's best for society if people who take it on understand the risk and the reward. Otherwise we grow a bunch of idiots who end up in charge. I'm glad you are responsible about it.and I wish you well.

  • @comentaristax9804
    @comentaristax9804 Год назад

    I currently study in a very high rated German public university. It costs like 150 dollars for semester but well, there is no parking, no sporting facilities (aside from necessary for related majors). The food offered is not cheaper than a bigmac meal. I would have never imagined ball pools, climbing walls or yoga studios.

  • @Lukeor
    @Lukeor 8 лет назад +7

    College kids right now are on a debt fueled luxury high that will only feed in even more to their entitled feeling. Right now they think since they don't have to make a student loan payment that everything is free, well wait til the bill comes. I could live the high life in my life too, but I'd have to pay the bill for it, that's why I live in my means.

  • @tolstory
    @tolstory 7 лет назад +2

    He is exceptional and creative.
    Love his parodies and tasteful humor.
    He is a real American. Will somebody please stamp his pass port to stay here a little longer.

    • @HotVoodooWitch
      @HotVoodooWitch 5 лет назад +1

      What makes you think he's not a citizen?

  • @danield1414
    @danield1414 3 года назад

    This is my favorite RUclips video along with other Remy songs.

  • @sparkx251
    @sparkx251 Год назад +2

    College tuition is much like our government itself; in that its bureaucracy grew like a monster that now must be fed and its appetite keeps growing with no resolve. FEED ME. Now FEED me MORE.

    • @sparkx251
      @sparkx251 Год назад

      Fight for small government and less churn in all things.

  • @caseyjackson853
    @caseyjackson853 Год назад +1

    Love it guys! Students united!

  • @cuatro336
    @cuatro336 6 лет назад +6

    Still waiting on your album release Remy.

  • @skyvipers
    @skyvipers 3 года назад +1

    Here in 2021, it's like you guys are prophets who saw the future.

  • @wwlittle
    @wwlittle Год назад

    As a recently retired university professor, I can tell you that the two primary reasons for high tuition are the easy availability of student loans (If the institution knows you have it, they will find a way to take it.) and the indoctrination that everyone needs to go to college. Do you really want to go tens of thousands of dollars into debt for degrees that have practically no after college market or for which the training would be better done through simple work experience? Like medicine, housing, and anything else under tight government control and for which the government provides "assistance" to supposedly help the disadvantaged, a university education has been removed from free-market controls and no longer bears a resemblance to a person's ability to pay, rather it has become another way to increase dependence upon the government for survival.

  • @DutchTDK
    @DutchTDK 6 лет назад

    Roughly 2.300 US dollar a year here in the netherlands. We generally don't live on school campusses, our schools are modest when it comes to side stuff like explained in this song. Our ranking is mostly in the top sixty with a couple in the top 40 of schools in the world

  • @allcommiescaneatshitanddie2604
    @allcommiescaneatshitanddie2604 6 лет назад +1

    I remember my Dad paying my first quarter at San Angelo State, $4500 including dorm living, and I paid the next quarter, and I didn't have a real appreciation of how much $4500 was until I had to pay it myself. We didn't have all the perks you see in the video, at least back in the early 90's, but I did finally finish school and get a degree, and it didn't cost $100,000. Later, I worked at Dell Computer for a while, and when I was on the phones for laptop tech support, I remember having to replace laptops for college students who got them as part of a massive school loan, and thus, used them as coasters and frisbees, because in their minds, the laptops didn't actually 'cost' anything, and of course, we'd send out new ones under warranty. Pretty frustrating, back then laptops were pretty expensive... Hm.. course, I've never had to pay on a school loan myself, so YAY. :)

  • @paullasmith4975
    @paullasmith4975 Год назад

    Being uneducated and a business owner, I was surprised when I read the resumes of those responding to my 'help wanted' ad -- lots of degreed applicants. (back when they were willing to work). 🎱

  • @asherwerner
    @asherwerner 8 лет назад +1

    so glad i go to uni in Englan where we don't spend our first two years messing about and although uni isn't cheap, we don't have to pay for crazy amounts of extra curricular facilities like american parents are expected to!

  • @dustintacohands1107
    @dustintacohands1107 2 года назад

    Education need not cost so much, technology could link the greatest teachers with thousands of students. A change in thinking is needed not more money.

  • @kenburns4547
    @kenburns4547 3 года назад +3

    LOL the song compares themselves with union-workers in Ireland
    "WHY ARE OUR LUXURY SCHOOLS so EXPENSIVE?"
    Because luxuries should be CHEAP, of course.....

  • @sezrekahneldar4058
    @sezrekahneldar4058 5 лет назад +3

    True story:
    "Prepare to raise your service fees to match the percentage increase in federal aid awarded this year."
    - Corporate Office

  • @NeoBluereaper
    @NeoBluereaper 8 лет назад +15

    Wait was that the actual college campuses shown or just holiday resorts?!

    • @Illyrien
      @Illyrien 8 лет назад +6

      +Azure Well, there are continual popups saying that its actual footage

    • @screamtoasigh9984
      @screamtoasigh9984 6 лет назад +9

      Stossel did an episode where he toured the campuses of a few of these, the rock wall was in the episode as was private chef dining and on hand masseuse. Apparently it's the competition for schools now, do you want the water park or the 18 hole golf course? Either way equals debt and stupider than you went in.

    • @charlescoon577
      @charlescoon577 6 лет назад +2

      Those look similar to state research universities. See a map of Texas State University in San Marcos Texas for evidence.

  • @islaincognita
    @islaincognita 3 года назад +2

    In france, our universities are just universities, and they re pretty much free

  • @goldabernstein1215
    @goldabernstein1215 Год назад

    Another factor for rising tuition costs is real estate acquisition. Many colleges have purchased an enormous amount of high priced property. Example: Creighton University in Omaha has purchased many properties in "The Old Market", a trendy shopping and restaurant district close to campus. The tuition is similar to an ivy league school but the quality of education isn't.... or wasn't. Ivy League schools aren't what they used to be.

  • @empirestate8791
    @empirestate8791 4 года назад +1

    In-state public universities cost less than 10k a year. If you take a lot of APs in high school, you can get out of college in 3 years! And there are so many scholarships!

    • @jeremiahblake3949
      @jeremiahblake3949 3 года назад

      Yeah if you get someone else paying half your bill. I pay 7k a year, but only because I get twice that in scholarships and student aid

  • @Quiscalus777
    @Quiscalus777 5 лет назад +1

    You forgot to check the brand new majillion dollar sports stadium.

  • @pavelina1650
    @pavelina1650 8 лет назад

    This is Remy's best yet.

  • @budjameson7805
    @budjameson7805 8 лет назад +4

    can we have more Remy?

  • @mikemcconeghy4658
    @mikemcconeghy4658 2 года назад +3

    Wouldn't it be great if a degree actually meant something? You work and work to get that credential and then the only companies who want to talk to you are the ones nobody wants to work for.

    • @howtubeable
      @howtubeable 2 года назад +1

      Colleges have always had the reputation of teaching impractical theories. They never prepared students for the real world. However, in recent decades, colleges have become dangerous, because they only teach destructive ideologies.

  • @ThisIsAeroPlane
    @ThisIsAeroPlane 8 лет назад +2

    Wow I just recently subscribed to this channel and recognize remy from way back 5+ years ago, I thought he'd gotten a deal with Comedy Central or something but it's good to see he stuck to truth telling instead

  • @FarscapeSDC
    @FarscapeSDC 8 лет назад +4

    I just don't understand how American universities can charge so much. As a student in New Zealand I pay the equivalent of about $4500 USD per year for my university. Granted the University of Canterbury is nowhere near as prestigious as somewhere like Harvard, but tuition of $45000 and up, an increase of %1000, for mostly the same damn thing? It just boggles my semi-socialist mind. Even the most expensive university in England (Cambridge) only charges the equivalent of $14000 USD per year.

    • @Virk1997
      @Virk1997 8 лет назад +3

      +FarscapeSDC The reason college is so expensive here is because the government has made it so that anyone can afford it by taking student loans. If the government was to abolish student loans, and limit government grants college attendance would drop, and the tuition cost would follow.

    • @FarscapeSDC
      @FarscapeSDC 8 лет назад

      +Troy Bell I doubt that highly. In New Zealand, pretty much anyone who completes High School can apply for an receive a student loan (including myself) and yet the tuition costs are comparatively low compared to the USA. There must be some other factors at work.

    • @Virk1997
      @Virk1997 8 лет назад

      FarscapeSDC We also have a population that far surpasses yours. There's much less of a stress on colleges to accommodate for your students. The amount of college students in the U.S. is almost 5 times the population of New Zealand.

    • @davidolszeski3982
      @davidolszeski3982 5 лет назад

      Actually college tuition in the United States really isn't that expensive. The average public university's tuition AND fees come out to $9,970 US /year or a small community college where the tuition and fees are $3,570 /year. A majority of the cost at the public universities is the FEES section. At the college I went to it was nearly $1200 /year per student to support the sports teams. An amount that was over five times the cost of fees charged to run the state's education board. And almost 100 times the cost of the "library fees" that funded the multi million dollar research databases the university ran. Then the cost of housing to stay on campus nearly doubles that amount. But the university I went to was mostly commuter students who lived with their parents and I was completely baffled how ANYONE who had taken the same courses as me ended up over $100k+ in debt before they even graduated. Especially considering the fact that the State of Georgia has a program (Hope Scholarship) that is funded by the lottery that pays for 85% of your tuition and fees if you maintain good grades (3.0 GPA... so basically an average 'passing grade').

  • @kosakos1999
    @kosakos1999 3 года назад +2

    Are all those amenities included in the tuition? Why not charge extra when the students actually use them? I know I won't be using any of them!

  • @peggyandreason4837
    @peggyandreason4837 Год назад +1

    A lot of high end colleges have Diversity people who make easy mid six figures. Why? Every time the student loans increase so do the salaries of the professors. Coincidence?

  • @theidiotdownthestreet4998
    @theidiotdownthestreet4998 8 лет назад +8

    I got a free tuition. The NAVY

  • @MilwaukeeF40C
    @MilwaukeeF40C 8 лет назад +1

    The university I attended had a "sauna bath", as the Indian kid who cleaned it called it. I pissed on the rocks. True story.

  • @jameshanshaw516
    @jameshanshaw516 6 лет назад +3

    That was great.

  • @pranavjay2
    @pranavjay2 8 лет назад +2

    Yey! GoRemy Uploaded a new song!

  • @connerymartin2952
    @connerymartin2952 3 года назад

    Truth is, 15$ isn't even a living wage in the vast majority of cities..

  • @emilywallace9043
    @emilywallace9043 8 лет назад +4

    I need a safe space to shield me from your logic and truth!

  • @kerbaman5125
    @kerbaman5125 3 года назад

    Of the stuff shown, a diving platform makes perfect sense, diving is an Olympic sport, after all.

  • @ladefreakndah
    @ladefreakndah 8 лет назад +2

    Because it's not their money. Institutions will spend every dollar they can and cry for more funds.
    And not everybody needs to go to college.

  • @ProductBasement
    @ProductBasement 4 года назад +1

    Might want to look for the administration at the bank. They might be there cashing checks you wrote them on government-backed, low-interest loans

  • @nithqueen
    @nithqueen 3 года назад

    fuck imagine a small humble college for everything from home egonomics to old fashioned arcitecture

  • @rudyando
    @rudyando 3 года назад

    The first image in this video some girl is holding up: Abolish Student Loans.
    Yup. I agree. Abolish student loans and colleges will have to substantially bring their prices down.

  • @7ajhubbell
    @7ajhubbell 3 года назад

    Thank you.

  • @matrixman8582
    @matrixman8582 6 лет назад +1

    This is my favorite Remy video

    • @ledzeppelin1212
      @ledzeppelin1212 4 года назад

      Check out Remy's "People Will Die" video. It's probably my favorite!

    • @matrixman8582
      @matrixman8582 4 года назад +1

      @@ledzeppelin1212 That song had a good message. But this song has that plus it's catchier

    • @ledzeppelin1212
      @ledzeppelin1212 4 года назад

      @@matrixman8582 To each their own, I guess ☺

  • @dervakommtvonhinten517
    @dervakommtvonhinten517 3 года назад +2

    if the universities actually had all that stuff the tuition might be justified... but thats not the case.

  • @Liberty4Ever
    @Liberty4Ever 8 лет назад +1

    I laughed so hard that milk came out my nose... and I wasn't even drinking milk at the time. Thank you Remy!
    I think the real joke here is the clueless behavior of students seeking a higher education. Every one-building college that teaches medical insurance coding is now a tax subsidized "university". There are no jobs in this crashed economy so young people go to school for 4-5 years and go into debt to the federal government. Unlike almost every other type of debt those student loans aren't discharged in a bankruptcy. THAT'S the lesson that the millennials are going to learn from college. Well, that, and socialist protesting.

  • @KennethC43
    @KennethC43 6 месяцев назад

    Tuition/bills only cover the payroll of a school/ Nonprofit. While Government Grants pay for the facilities.

  • @jacobkreifels7690
    @jacobkreifels7690 3 года назад +1

    My college had none of these and was just as expensive

  • @thedarkknight4243
    @thedarkknight4243 2 года назад +2

    Name of original song, please 🥺

  • @arboroak1633
    @arboroak1633 5 лет назад +1

    Did anyone comprehend the message of if you actually went to school to learn instead of be entertained it would be much cheaper?

  • @InvaderSyd
    @InvaderSyd 8 лет назад +1

    "How do I do laundry?" LOL

  • @a.athertonwrites
    @a.athertonwrites Год назад +1

    wtf school had all this stuff ?? has Remy ever been to a campus? Top schools charge high tuition based on their popularity, doesn’t mean that actually have great amenities
    & if you get a ‘good’ degree you won’t have time to enjoy amenities anyway because you’ll be grinding

  • @pepleatherlab3872
    @pepleatherlab3872 3 года назад

    The Universities are the last to care. The arrangement left their hands long ago. Debt is between students and the government who were irresponsible enough to put the U.S. tax payer on the line. So now, University's get to produce a sub standard product at extreme prices and rake in the profits. Who loses? Well, the student overpaying for a degree they may never use and the tax payer who may never see a benefit for financing education meant to improve society. If you just want to party for four years, there are cheaper ways to do it.

  • @punishedoniichan
    @punishedoniichan 8 лет назад +1

    Anyone feelin' the Bern for "Tuition Is Too Damn High Party"?

  • @moshecohen5551
    @moshecohen5551 8 лет назад +1

    Remy is such a badass

  • @thedarkknight4243
    @thedarkknight4243 2 года назад +2

    source song, please

  • @Chipiricuiki0083
    @Chipiricuiki0083 3 года назад

    somewhat ashamed my alma matter is featured prominently here... but in Miami's defense, a lot of what's show is just because it's in Miami and has been that way since well... 1925

  • @christelstevens
    @christelstevens 8 лет назад +1

    Haha I saw GMU in here Go Remy!

  • @JenoPaciano
    @JenoPaciano 5 лет назад

    It isn't the students' fault. Human nature hasn't changed, but our systems have. Something went wrong for these people. They just have no idea what it is.

  • @23Butanedione
    @23Butanedione 3 года назад +1

    I like bongo remy the best