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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 12 Jun 2019

      Brokenness = potential energy. Anything badly broken is a dam holding back a lake of unrealized desires. A startup that can bore a hole through such a dam can liberate all that energy.

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    2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 12 Jun 2019

      The opportunity that comes from brokenness = the number of people affected times how much it hurts them. For example, US higher education is massively broken. In exchange for degrees that are often worthless, millions of people get into debt that will burden them for decades.

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    3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 12 Jun 2019

      The source of the brokenness of US higher education is a mixture of social custom, institutional rigidity, and government policy that would be extremely hard to unravel. But Lambda School just bored a hole through the dam.

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    4. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 12 Jun 2019

      Lambda School may not be a complete solution to the brokenness of US higher education, but it's an immediate one. And the hole in the dam is still small, but it's growing at startup rates.

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    5. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 12 Jun 2019

      What other problems can be solved by boring a hole through the dam? Could you fix healthcare? On the face of it, it seems unlikely. But I didn't think higher education could be fixed either before I saw Lambda School.

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 12 Jun 2019

      (I know I'll get hell from trolls for suggesting a startup might fix healthcare. "Tech bro thinks startups can fix all the world's problems." But if I can set off a spark in the brains of a handful of people who might drill through such dams, I'll take that deal.)

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        1. Garden -Js spam account dedicated to helping‏ @willelonreply 12 Jun 2019
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          I’ve got ideas for healthcare devices that i need @elonmusk help making 😌

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        2. Mos Fett‏ @MossFet 12 Jun 2019
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          Hmmm im not sure the rest of the developed world would say they have “solved” health care

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        1. Tee Faircloth  🇺🇸‏ @TeeFaircloth 12 Jun 2019
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          Not healthcare in totality, but the hospital system is more broken than the university system. Much harder though, because you have to work through them which is incredibly Sisyphean.

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        2. NDR, SHORT TUR Capital‏ @NegDiscountRt 12 Jun 2019
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          Wow man, what a self-sacrifice. We are very grateful for your noble actions.

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        3. Mos Fett‏ @MossFet 12 Jun 2019
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          What have you done?

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        1. Tom Mullaly‏ @wagefreedom 12 Jun 2019
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          Of course it all starts with questions like this--naysayers be damned!

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        1. BubbleTea‏ @TapiocaFlour 12 Jun 2019
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          Housing... New towns with prefab houses and efficient roading network

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        1. ar_wisdom‏ @ar_wisdom 12 Jun 2019
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          The greatest impact on healthcare could be to use genetic engineering to give babies working combinations of the most effective genes found in the global population. Pursuant to that will be creating spaces where people who agree with this are not hindered by those who don’t

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        1. Himanshu Yadav‏ @himanshuy_ 12 Jun 2019
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          Thanks for sparking the curiosity. Tech may not solve all of the healthcare problems but we can start with 1 problem at a time.

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