1. It's hard to do for a living. On the other hand, is being a lawyer a hard skill to learn? Or an actor? 2. You don't have to go to the Ivy League to earn money on Wall Street. I have no idea why you singled out the Wall Street crowd. This is just another vocation as any other one. And not everybody can do it just like not everybody can be a neurosurgeon no matter how much it pays. I know I wouldn't even go near it for any money.
Four, but it's a very low-population country famed worldwide for the high standards of its educational system, almost universally acclaimed as the best in Europe, anyway. (I think a much better parameter would be how many PhD's or college professors it's produced? And that's a lot, for its population. I'm "just saying" ... ).
U.S. students (both black and white) in predominately white suburban schools test higher, way higher than do the students of Finland. The inner city schools drag down our average below most of the world.
I don't really know the exact details, but as I know they would cut some social benefits instead: for example charge higher prices at the public transport and so on and so forth...
Indeed ... it's intended - among other things - as an alternative to paying unemployment benefits (which are clearly a huge expense to the taxpayers, in many countries).
The arguments against it must be hilarious. It's ok to take money from someone and give it to someone else, but it's not ok to take money from someone and give it right back to the person you took it from.
Really? Do you ever worked in WS before? Do you know what is their average working hours each week? Do you really believe other professional really contribute to economy? Look at those so called professional that work in corporate world, they spend most of their working hours on office politics and useless presentation to please the upper management. Btw, WS also have a big team of people that has a super strong background in "physicist'/engineers'/programmers' ". Most of them start without connection from beginning , and work hard to gain the connection starting in college.