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CEO @LambdaSchool (YC S17): A CS education that's free until you get a job. I have made remarks that I do not agree with.

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    Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Sep 14

    Austen Allred Retweeted Lydia DePillis

    Unironically yes. We do want rich people (and all people) to create more options for how we can go to school. Then you and your family decide whether or not you would like attend that school. What Bezos is doing is unequivocally a good thing.https://twitter.com/lydiadepillis/status/1040282084231790592 …

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    Lydia DePillisVerified account @lydiadepillis
    I mean, the Gates put like a half billion dollars into higher education, and had a meaningful impact -- but do we want a couple super wealthy people deciding how people go to school? https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Gates-Effect/140323 …
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      2. Amy Hoy  ✨‏ @amyhoy Sep 14
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        this whole trend of “undertaxed oligarchs suddenly creating parallel public works the government would fund if they weren’t starved of tax dollars by oligarchs” is super cool and very in line with equality and democracy

        2 replies 1 retweet 9 likes
      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Sep 14
        Replying to @amyhoy

        Ah yes, if the government had a higher percentage of Bezos’s wealth they would absolutely be solving that problem and wpuld be doing so very well

        5 replies 0 retweets 42 likes
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      2. Valor Recruiter‏ @ValorSearch Sep 14
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Lambda is awesome because they genuinely care about increasing prosperity for individuals. Looking at Amazon's track record, there is reason to question whether they would have the same core values, or whether they would benefit more from wage suppression.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Sep 14
        Replying to @ValorSearch

        I think Amazon cares deeply about pleasing its customers, to the extent that it alllws itself to squeeze vendors and partners

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Valor Recruiter‏ @ValorSearch Sep 14
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        No doubt, the customer experience is excellent and next level genius. The fulfillment center, out here in Phoenix, made recent headlines for how workers are treated (withheld bathroom breaks / paid below living wages). Its an interesting dynamic.

        2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. Keeeeeeenny‏ @KennyAmongus Sep 14
        Replying to @ValorSearch @AustenAllred

        I'm concerned about this, as you say, wage suppression, as Lambda scales. Your sympathies seem to lie more with Bezos than the worker issues that are making the news. I haven't seen you comment on that at all. Only defense of Bezos.

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      2. Ian Bongaardt‏ @IanBongaardt Sep 14
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Imagine a world where Bezos (and everyone) pay taxes and you can control where that money goes like charitable giving 😂😂

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Fabian Flatz‏ @fabian_flatz Sep 14
        Replying to @IanBongaardt @AustenAllred

        Imagine a world where Bezos stops donating money.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. Ian Bongaardt‏ @IanBongaardt Sep 14
        Replying to @fabian_flatz @AustenAllred

        Or anyone...

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      2. curious_corn‏ @curious_corn Sep 15
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Hey, I guess you’re conflating potential to create more options for education with “we want rich people to do that for us”. I assume you’re Libertarian, but LOL look how easily it’s derailing to Paternalism... 1/2

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      3. curious_corn‏ @curious_corn Sep 15
        Replying to @curious_corn @AustenAllred

        2/2 you want the People to have that power? Then we don’t need more billionaires, but more taxes and better participation to collective governance.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. rektide de la fey‏ @rektide Sep 14
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I like the ”(and all people)” bit but am repulsed by most of your reply. You yourself are doing a good job creating interesting novel new schooling but only in the limited realm of the most aggressive, prosperous industry out there.

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      3. rektide de la fey‏ @rektide Sep 14
        Replying to @rektide @AustenAllred

        We don't have anywhere near the capability we need to be trying new things for education, & leaving trials to high growth sectors & the fantastically rich sounds like society quaffing the hemlock.

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      2. Logan‏ @CopePosting Sep 14
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Imagine thinking adding a bureaucracy to an investment making decision by ideologues would assist in the purpose of the mission.

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      3. curious_corn‏ @curious_corn Sep 14
        Replying to @CopePosting @AustenAllred

        Yeh, eventually ideologues would pop up claiming it’s time to “starve the beast” to get rid of this bureaucracy 😆

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Ben Gruber‏ @bennygruber Sep 14
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Nailed it. I don't understand how people can criticize him for donating $2B dollars. It will change thousands of lives.

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      2. Robert E. P. Levy‏ @rplevy Sep 14
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        What Bezos is doing is good. The main criticism I have of Bezos is how much of his empire is due to coercively holding down competition using patents. One calculation has just the one-click patent netting $2.4 billion in annual revenues. How would Amazon fare in a free market?

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      1. Dan Andersson‏ @dandersxon Sep 14
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Nobody is saying it’s not a good thing, but should people be praised for being good if they have been bad leading up to it?

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