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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 16

    Austen Allred Retweeted Vanessa Williamson

    “Instead of people giving their money to charitable causes we should take it from them and let Congress decide how to spend it” is a helluva takehttps://twitter.com/V_Williamson/status/1040406395772956677 …

    Austen Allred added,

    Vanessa Williamson @V_Williamson
    You know what's way better than charity? Taxes.
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    5:34 AM - 16 Sep 2018
    • 19 Retweets
    • 250 Likes
    • Winning Emergence Raymond McCue 💗⚤💜⚣💙, 🏳️‍🌈 Tequehead Hunter Smith Geoff Kenyon Daniel Woelfel Jason Brand Erik Berg Tony Franco
    17 replies 19 retweets 250 likes
      1. New conversation
      2. Louis Nicholls‏ @louisnicholls_ Sep 16
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Wow that's short-sighted. If the US taxed properly, there'd be no need for (intranational) charity.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Sep 16
        Replying to @louisnicholls_

        No need for charity???

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. Louis Nicholls‏ @louisnicholls_ Sep 16
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Yes. At least within a country. Charity is only necessary when the state cannot fulfill its responsibility to citizens...

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Louis Nicholls‏ @louisnicholls_ Sep 16
        Replying to @louisnicholls_ @AustenAllred

        So at best it enables inadequate (and inefficient use of) taxation. At worst, it allows for personal bias to creep into social decisions.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Louis Nicholls‏ @louisnicholls_ Sep 16
        Replying to @louisnicholls_ @AustenAllred

        Obviously it's not 'bad' to give to charity. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be working towards a system where charity isn't needed.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Sep 16
        Replying to @louisnicholls_

        Define “needed”

        3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Louis Nicholls‏ @louisnicholls_ Sep 16
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Difficult. Probably moving goalposts. Adam Smith had a great line about linen shirts which would be apt here...

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      9. End of conversation
      1. New conversation
      2. puzzler‏ @doodleface Sep 16
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Ummmmm, 99% of the residents of your essential Bay Area agree with that take.

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Sep 16
        Replying to @doodleface

        Don’t think that’s true, but if it is I disagree with them. Wouldn’t be the first time.

        0 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
      4. End of conversation
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      2. Jonah Benton‏ @jonahbenton Sep 16
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Am supportive of your ed efforts, but this is a terrible opinion. Govt & taxes are the least bad of the options. Letting billionaire-funded charities provide services is oligarch/Koch Bros policy. Use tech learnings to improve representative spending instead.

        1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
      3. Bryan Beal  🎧‏ @bryanrbeal Sep 16
        Replying to @jonahbenton @AustenAllred

        How much of your income do you voluntarily give to the IRS each year?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Jonah Benton‏ @jonahbenton Sep 16
        Replying to @bryanrbeal @AustenAllred

        Considerably more than I would give to nearly any charity.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. Bryan Beal  🎧‏ @bryanrbeal Sep 16
        Replying to @jonahbenton @AustenAllred

        I don’t believe for a second you voluntarily give extra money to the IRS each year

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Jonah Benton‏ @jonahbenton Sep 16
        Replying to @bryanrbeal @AustenAllred

        Believe what you wish! We do in fact round up, but that's not the point. The point: charities in the US have top brand marketing to give their donors the warm fuzzies. Under the hood there is no magic: often incompetent delivery, poor measurement, and zero accountability.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Jonah Benton‏ @jonahbenton Sep 16
        Replying to @jonahbenton @bryanrbeal @AustenAllred

        At funding levels that can have a long term systematic impact ($Bs), I would take a government agency over an independent charity. You should too.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Bryan Beal  🎧‏ @bryanrbeal Sep 16
        Replying to @jonahbenton @AustenAllred

        I guess that’s why the tax schools spend 300% more per student than the charity schools, yet do worse in every testing category. And not just here, as an average across the entire country?

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      9. Jonah Benton‏ @jonahbenton Sep 16
        Replying to @bryanrbeal @AustenAllred

        Yeesh, I will make my own guess that you don't know anything about what backs "stats" like that, but separately it is relatively easy to optimize for cost and test scores. What you don't get on the other side? A human being. Twitter is terrible for discussion. My best to you!

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. Rocky Pruitt‏ @RockyPruitt Sep 16
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Grant this ideology and these people no quarter.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Chris Close‏ @soclose2me Sep 16
        Replying to @RockyPruitt @AustenAllred

        Accelerating wealth bifurcation by backstopping earned losses for the few via languishing wages, aspirations, opportunity, and social mobility for the many is the forge & bellows that inevitably crafts the potent, sometimes devastating, and always unpredictable cudgel of populism

        2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
      4. Andy‏ @Andys_Brain Sep 16
        Replying to @soclose2me @RockyPruitt @AustenAllred

        Let’s unpack that @pt

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      5. End of conversation

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