friendly reminder that a four-year english literature degree is not, and should never be, a ‘public good’https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1200261372015194113 …
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It probably would reduce crime & incarceration. That’s 4 years an 18-22yo is stuck in the library studying
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Apparently it works. Even in prison, it reduces the recidivism rate from 50% to 4%.https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-sense-with-sam-harris/id733163012?i=1000457667084 …
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Were prisoners randomly assigned to those classes? I kinda doubt people pursuing undergrad degrees received treatment randomly (or by natural trial). Nothing *wrong* helping those who want to reform, but if they were unlikely to recidivate anyway, other ways maybe more effective.
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It's not when prison spending is up +300% (sunk cost with near-zero economic returns) over the same time-frame when education spending is down -35% (even though the later returns 4:1 economically for every dollar invested). Higher education is much, much better for everyone.
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this is such an insane false dichotomy i genuinely do not even know where to begin
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