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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: A college education is not a right it’s an investment.

I hear lots of democrats saying that a college education is a right and therefore should be free. However I think that it is a privilege and that the taxpayer should not be paying for it.

A right is something that is essential to life, e.g. Freedom, right to thought, right to religion. My first point is that 70% of Americans do not have a college degree but still manage day to day life and to earn an average salary of $28 000 a year. More than enough to live on.

My second point is that it increases potential income dramatically and therefore should be considered an investment. The average college graduate makes $51,000 a year and clearly can pay off their student debt. If the taxpayer paid for it we are essentially paying for other people to make more money.
gpt
Well, it's an investment, but the real question is who should be making that investment, because individuals are not the only ones that benefit from that investment. 

In a country with decreasing need for unskilled labor, and increasing reliance on higher skilled labor, it is a worthwhile investment for that country make to have a higher percentage of their citizens have a college degree. 

At that point, the question of "rights" comes in, because there are a lot of ways that social problems create inequalities in who gets to benefit from that "investment", whether the investment is primarily individual or primarily societal. 

Having *equal opportunity* to benefit from the investment in college educations seems like a very important "right" that we should protect.