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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2016
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      1/ STEM people like to think impossible student debt burdens are self-inflicted by narcissistic art history types. This is self-serving bs.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2016
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      2/ While data do show STEM degrees have better ROI, even doctors, lawyers and engineers can end up in deep shit by making ONE bad decision

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2016
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      3/ It takes a decade of experimenting and trial-and-error today to find your "product-market-fit" in the economy

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2016
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      4/ In a creative-class dominant economy, you can't invest in humans like pieces of equipment for which you're predicting demand 40 years out

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2016
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      5/ Both neoliberalism, progressivism share a single existential concern today: investing effectively in humans. Both respond with hypocrisy

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2016
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      6/ College education choices are where these two hypocrisies meet, creating a perfect storm of stupidity

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2016
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      7/ The conceit of neoliberalism is that 19-year-olds can place error-free 40-year bets and deserve only debt-funding, bearing all the risk

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2016
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      8/ The conceit of progressivism is that education choices are human-dignity affirmations for which societies should shoulder all risk

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2016
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      9/ What when this thing melts down? Neoliberals will want the banks bailed out and the debtors abandoned. Progressives will want a jubilee.

      2 replies 6 retweets 19 likes
      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2016
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      10/ Post-secondary education should be managed as equity rather than debt, with risk distributed across individuals, institutions, society

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2016
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          11/ Every human should be considered a startup of unknown future economic value at 14, not a priori a net asset or liability in NPV terms

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2016
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          12/ This will of course be wrong at the margins. Prior odds for/against certain people becoming net assets/liabilities may be huge

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        2. Harry Heymann‏ @harryh 18 Apr 2016
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          @vgr This would require a profound reduction in self confidence levels for many 19 year olds.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2016
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          @harryh it can hurt or help self-confidence depending on how/what expectations are created, managed, what they feel they're being held to

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        2. Meredith L. Patterson‏Verified account @maradydd 18 Apr 2016
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          @vgr as usual I find Belgium illustrative here. university is cheap and easy to get in to, but classes are brutal and weed people out early.

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        3. Meredith L. Patterson‏Verified account @maradydd 18 Apr 2016
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          @vgr that said, washing out of uni isn't a career-killing experience; the community-college equiv. is practical and a lot of people do it

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        1. Greg Fodor‏ @gfodor 18 Apr 2016
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          @vgr @sknthla Like in many debates, questioning shared assumptions is important: a 50k/yr education cannot be delivered for 5k/yr. Why not?

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        1.  🐜 🐻‏ @ultimape 22 Apr 2016
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          @vgr I really want to see this happen in my lifetime. This ideas has been on the cusp for a while:https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/625990775659048960 …

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          http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001421  In which @aaronsw basically describes @ycombinator September 23, 2004 pic.twitter.com/XE5o9wRbld
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