Since then, the US has pushed countries across the region to terminate these agreements, branding them “forced labour” and even “human trafficking” because the Cuban state retains a share of salaries. Conveniently ignoring that these doctors were trained free of charge by the Cuban government, unlike their heavily indebted counterparts in countries such as the UK where medical graduates have the onerous burden of student debt for decades.
So, if you get trained by the State – say, we go back to grants for uni – then the State gets to allocate your labour forever? You become, in fact, helots of the State?
Well, there’s an argument in favour of student loans then, eh?
The fool admits himself that all these thousands of doctors bring in billions of revenue for the Cuban state.
That certainly sounds like human trafficking to me.
An awful lot of Cuban doctors were trafficked to South Africa by the newly installed communoenthusiasts and dumped in rural areas. They were handicapped by language and their training into early undergraduate specialisation where rural medicine requires broad abilities surgical medical and pediatric.. despite this some tried to stay on beyond contract finding SA freer
Given the UK the Guardianistas seem to aim for…
Yes, yes… That’s exactly the way they want things to go..
The State ( which they wisely and benevolently rule, of course..) determines what you study, where you work, and how much you get to “pay back”..
Y’know… (post)Stalinist USSR, Maoist China, North Korea…
Their glorious examples of the Future they envision…
No doubt Mr. Mohammed would have considered the Berlin Wall a good thing as it stopped ungrateful East Germans from getting a ‘free’ education then escaping to freedom in the West……..
In what way is it ‘free of charge’ if the govt retains a share of salary? How is that functionally different from tuition debt?
I swear, so much of the left’s thinking is just motivated reasoning. The state must be allowed to do things the left wants the state to do, without troubling itself with things like fixed contracts, cost/benefit analysis. “Good people will do good things if you leave them alone” – for a very limited category of ‘good people’
Who the fuck is named “Kenneth Mohammed”?
“Suits him, Sir.”
We call it “socialised labour”; it’s completely different from “national socialised labour”!
unlike their heavily indebted counterparts in countries such as the UK where medical graduates have the onerous burden of student debt for decades, Cuban doctors live in lifelong poverty and can’t afford cars.
I thought everybody in Cuba drove around in Ford Edsels.
the Cuban state retains a share of salaries
So does the British state, we call it tax, and it’ comes to quite a bit over time. How can it be slavery when it is effectively paying tax on the salary? Does that make it simply a job?
“Free of charge”…. Like when a company trains someone and they go and work for a competitor for more money. Outrageous… this must be stopped.