Now that universities are empty, let’s take a sec to recognize just how amazing it is that every skillset takes exactly the same time to acquire. Want to be an Engineer – 4 years! Historian – 4 years! What are the chances of that happening? Don’t know, but Statistician – 4 years!
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Replying to @romanyam @Jonathan_Blow
I learned a lot more than just my major in those 4 years.
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You shouldn't have to learn more than your major. If you could be done in 3 years instead of 4, then you'd have 1 year of income vs. 1 year of tuition. 50-100k difference between the two.
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @CasualSquirrel and
When is someone going to coin the phrase "College-Industrial Complex"? OK, never mind, someone already has: https://www.google.com/search?q=College-Industrial+Complex …
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Replying to @cmuratori @Jonathan_Blow and
If capitalism is the solution, there should be a lot of cheap colleges out there that competed with high quality at a lower price.
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Replying to @Sol_HSA @Jonathan_Blow and
Capitalism is only a solution when an actual functioning market can be created (apologies strict libertarians, I'm not with you on this :) College is like mattresses, health care, home furnishings, municipal construction, etc. - huge, expensive, and with a slow feedback loop.
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Replying to @cmuratori @Sol_HSA and
Don't strict libertarians say the same thing? Namely that the market is always perfect as long as no one interferes with regulations. In other words, if we back off, the market will always be self-functioning and perfect. (Trying not to strawman here...)
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Strict libertarians, as far as I can tell, believe that well-functioning markets occur when government doesn't intervene. But that seems plainly false in my experience. Well-functioning markets seem to occur only when the government provides a number of guarantees and policing.
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Replying to @cmuratori @j_KN0X and
Another way to say it is that strict libertarians seem to believe that well-functioning markets exist where the government does not, whereas I would argue well-functioning markets exist where savvy governments preside, and don't exist anywhere else (or if they do, not very long).
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I have much longer and more detailed arguments for this but Twitter is not a particularly conducive medium :(
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