[henrikschroder]

> If you aren't willing to invest in yourself, why should society do so?

Because society has an interest in a large, well-educated labour pool that its entrepreneurs and companies can draw from. They can then employ these people, and pay them high salaries, a part of which goes back to education, and there you have a positive spiral.

[geodel]

With rising level of joblessness across the world, I am not too sure societies are having difficulty in having large well educated labour pool.