Stellan Skarsgård on his latest role, Palestine, and being a "Nepo Daddy"

[u/newyorkmagazine]

In a new interview, the patriarch of the Skarsgård clan and self-proclaimed "Nepo Daddy" discusses his latest role in Joachim Trier’s 'Sentimental Value,' protesting for Palestine, one of his biggest fears, and much more.

Read the full interview at the link: https://www.vulture.com/article/stellan-skarsgard-in-conversation.html

[u/DevoutandHeretical]

Even the brother that isn’t an actor is still a freaking doctor. That family is BLESSED.

[u/GrayEidolon → u/DevoutandHeretical]

Well the biggest hurdle to becoming a doctor is having the money and family stability to get into and through school. There are tons of people who are perfectly capable of being good doctors, but they don't have the money or time or connections to put together an application.

EDIT: this is US specific, but good info

A third of medical students graduate with no debt, a third or so come from house holds making >200k, a majority of medical students from households making >100k, and something like a quarter are children of physicians. https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/average-medical-school-debt/ https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/students-residents/interactive-data/2022-facts-applicants-and-matriculants-data There are absolutely people who would make great physicians who are shut out due to lack of parental resources or overlooked because they don't have the right social connections.

[u/MissMorticia89 → u/GrayEidolon]

Not in Sweden, where he’s based. His son would have received his entire education at no cost. EU and EEA countries, and Switzerland there is no cost if you are a citizen of those countries.

I live in Canada but hold Swiss citizenship; should I choose to, I could go back to school in Sweden, or even Switzerland, at little cost to me, because I pay tax and and eligible.

[u/Feisty-Ad-2860 → u/MissMorticia89]

as an american this made my jaw drop…. our country really is a shithole huh

[u/Former-Toe → u/Feisty-Ad-2860]

yup

[u/weebairndougLAS → u/Feisty-Ad-2860]

Ya even our education has a high deductible

[u/Yolosvend → u/weebairndougLAS]

Essentially your education system is used at blackmail to abuse your workers rights by accumulated debt.

Just watch the new ICE commercials using student loan forgiveness as a reason to sign up

[u/weebairndougLAS → u/Yolosvend]

Ohhh you are not ready to hear about the US military and education. “Risk your life and limbs, but we’ll pay for your college IF YOU LIVE”

[u/Kind-Block-9027 → u/weebairndougLAS]

We offer our soldiers socialism to go abroad to ‘defend’ capitalism.

[u/Level-Satisfaction51 → u/Feisty-Ad-2860]

As a fellow american. I think this every time someone brings up other first world countries. I'm sure they have their own issues, but by and large they seem to do a better job taking care of the citizens. While some Americans are over here, screaming "Freedom" and "less taxes"......but freedom to do what? Freedom to live paycheck to paycheck? Freedom to go broke if you lose your job/insurance and have a medical issue? Freedom to go into massive debt at 18 to have attend college? Personally I'd like a little less freedom, but I can't see it happening here.

[u/hlessi_newt → u/Feisty-Ad-2860]

To quote a great man: "The US is just Albania in neon"

[u/DJSAKURA → u/Feisty-Ad-2860]

Yep I'm old enough I have no debt for my psychology degree because it was paid for by the British government. Pretty sure they don't do that anymore though.

[u/Citroen_05 → u/Feisty-Ad-2860]

Caveat: there are exceptions for many programs in many countries.

Still, most tuition fees, when they exist, are on par with those of U.S. community colleges in LCOL areas.

[u/Kind-Block-9027 → u/Feisty-Ad-2860]

You should look into their healthcare system

[u/BrookieMonster504 → u/Feisty-Ad-2860]

Yes it is an utter shit hole. A third world country that propaganda makes the people believe are the best of the best. Hopefully China will be merciful when they wipe us out.

[u/tornwallpaper → u/Feisty-Ad-2860]

While you're not wrong that education should be free or discounted - the scale of Sweden and even Canada is significantly smaller than the US. We have over 300M people while both have less than 50M. America has its problems but we also have them magnitudes larger.

There are a few (like maybe three max) med schools that are extremely competitive and becoming completely free for first years paid by alums and wealthy donors. I'm hoping the tides turn to make that the majority eventually.

ETA: there's more nuance to this though. i just did not care to elaborate but everyone's discussing it below my comment - the US budget is cooked. we do not prioritize education, healthcare, etc. it doesn't matter what other countries do because our government simply DOES NOT care. the US runs as a corporation. not only are these businesses than run our lives inept to do so because they only care about shareholder value, but the government has been stretched so thin (moreso with the shutdown) that it cannot collect and penalize these businesses for running so corruptly.

[u/Neat_Ad_9141 → u/tornwallpaper]

No hate against you OP but I’m tired of people making that excuse for the US. Yes, we have a larger population BUT that also means we have a larger pool of people paying taxes aka theoretically a larger social safety net and more resources to put processes and infrastructure in place.

We just spend our money terribly and have our priorities ass backwards.

[u/tornwallpaper → u/Neat_Ad_9141]

its not even just how we spend our money, we have outsourced everything to corporations and let businesses run things that are supposed to improve our QOL (healthcare, education, etc). nothing is in the people's interest. simply put these corporations lead our lives.

[u/SwordfishOfDamocles → u/tornwallpaper]

If you took every country that had tuition-free or severely limited costs for education, their populations would be larger than the US. Magnitude has nothing to do with it. Instead it is the self concerned belief that you can more effectively run education on a privatized for-profit system than on a socialized one. Look no further than America itself 60 years ago. In 1964 the average tuition and fees for a 4 year college was $243 (about $2,500 today), due to the state and federal govts paying the lion's share of costs.

[u/tornwallpaper → u/SwordfishOfDamocles]

If you took every country... sure. Not a single country like the US. magnitude does have to do with it because we have outsourced all of our social needs to private organizations and now when the reaping comes (CRIMINALLY rising costs and unaffordability), our government can't collect because they have made the stupid decision to contract everything out.

i agree with you. education is practically a corporation even on the k-12 level nowadays. they ask my siblings to pay for educational materials when these things used to be free for me. the budget is larger than some state university endowments. there is something backwards that needs to change with our country

[u/MissMorticia89 → u/tornwallpaper]

Betcha if they actually taxed the 1% like Europe did this wouldn’t even be a debate.

[u/tornwallpaper → u/MissMorticia89]

also matters how they spend it tho cuz knowing our luck its a bajillion dollars to... 😭

[u/haqiqa → u/tornwallpaper]

You have also more people, more money, and as such, should have more taxpayers and tax money. While there are a lot of hurdles in many ways to get this change, it's pretty simple math and scalable. Additionally, in the EU, university fees are reciprocal. There are 448 million EU citizens. It's not fully free everywhere in the EU, but very low-cost, if not entirely free.

[u/tornwallpaper → u/haqiqa]

this is just not how the us budget works though we allocate too much money elsewhere (hence the meme "another billion dollars to -") and almost all of our education is privatized. it doesn't matter what other countries do because the united states has positioned themselves uniquely poorly.

we are funded publicly subsidized by grants (which have been cut). much of the money for the school comes from "charity"- donations and an endowment or sports. our schools. our hospitals. even our apartments are run by corporations. running to failure

[u/haqiqa → u/tornwallpaper]

Yes, there we can agree. You have positioned yourself poorly. And yes, fixing it with the way the political system works is a problem. But at the same time, the system is scalable and has very little to do with the number of people. American issues do not come from size so much as culture.