9/ object level conclusion: student loan forgiveness, as presented today, is a bad idea meta level conclusion: don't stop with a basic bitch understanding of historical analogies; dig deeper
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10/ ...and, policy level conclusion: student loan forgiveness is a great idea if we can couple it with dissolution of the monasteries. Were I POTUS I'd approach the issue through a consumer protection angle: I'd "start a conversation" about the false deceptive claims unis make
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11/ I'd propose loan forgiveness coupled with an end to gov subsidies. * any department or major at a uni that can't demonstrate a 15 year track record of placing students in jobs with an average ROI on tuition of 20+% loses all gov funding going forward
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12/ * where "funding" means both grants and student loans * all existing loans forgiven if and only if the uni that took the loan money dissolves the department that issued the degree This aligns incentives - you now reach out directly to students and tell them to bombard uni
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13/ with requests that they dissolve the department that issued the degree. You've now put unis on the horns of a dilemma - either they shut down the Womens Studies departments and thus get 50,000 student loans forgiven on behalf of their grads, or their grads now hate them.
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14/ This is the kind of thing
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15/ There are dozens of ideas like this (re student loan, re reducing the power of the EPA, etc.) that a loose canon like Trump could have done. And yet he did effectively none of it. This is one reason I'm angry at him. He had Loose Canon Big Dick Energy and did so little.
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16/ The liberal arts departments in colleges were largely killed 20-40 years ago, hollowed out, and worn as skin suits by SJWs. For those who care, they can follow indie scholars like
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17/ and, further, a college is perfectly free to dissolve a department and then reconstitute it a week later under a slightly different name. I thought of that hack already. The trick is that the department can't get USG funding until it has a 15 year track record of ROI jobs.
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18/ So Cornell can dissolve African Studies, History, and Womens Studies, and then create African History Department, Old Things Department, and Female Studies ... but none of them ever get USG funding. If you want to study Old Things, go online, or go to Cornell. Either works.
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19/ what aspect am I missing? https://twitter.com/SpectreInTheBox/status/1329184807390121984 …
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Uh oh, what looney retweeted you and brought out the hammer and sickle crowd?
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In future I’d recommend not tweeting while mind meltingly high
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