I just had a brilliant idea for solving all higher-ed woes in one shot: index interest rates on student loans to job prospects in that major
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something like that. Cleanest source of the same signal will do.
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Yes they do. Work through the feedback loop to adjunct wages.
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. High for bad obviously. If you want subsidy, the current system does a beyond brilliant job that's the root of all the problems
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the diff between an abstract expectation/idea and a concrete incentive is night and day
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not for parents or smart students. Can't solve for stupid
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there's a big gray zone of addressable smart kids who just need a concrete poke to break romanticism bubble
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only one way to find out. The whole idea is academic due to political toxicity though.
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also your idea ends research science and, shortly thereafter, all technological advancement.
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absolutely not, quite the opposite, by forcing the hard question of supporting research directly instead of as a part of ed
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