I hope this is trolling. I don't think this is trolling. http://quillette.com/2017/04/20/crucible-application-process/ …
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I've had a slight personal experience with this despite not being in the arts/humanities, I'm in CS/HCI
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I have a side project on a committee where we're working on A Thing to help first-years deal with the stresses of the HS->Uni transition
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And someone of a higher standing than "grad student" offhandedly remarked one of the things it should address is dealing with Capitalism
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I don't think it really occurred to her that it would be needlessly polarizing for something we're hoping to reach a broad audience
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Many students likely have zero experience with any actual personal finance. Understanding the realities of capitalism would go along way
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Totally, that said an intro course called "So you've just taken out 300k in loans" seems important
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Agreed! Though, sadly, probably counter to incentives for a lot of universities... I imagine you'd get a lot more first-year drop-outs
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Yeah. They're unlikely to undermine their business model.
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