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/ Both neoliberalism, progressivism share a single existential concern today: investing effectively in humans. Both respond with hypocrisy
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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/ 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/ The conceit of progressivism is that education choices are human-dignity affirmations for which societies should shoulder all risk
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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.
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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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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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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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13/ Safety net should be designed with "good" failure in mind for 10-15 trial-and-error pivot opps btwn 14-30. Current: all failure is bad
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14/ Biggest point of contention in system design: is "dignity" (as opposed to food, shelter, healthcare) a safety net variable?
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15/ Pointless humiliation (being paternalistically given "food" stamps instead of cash to buy "vegetables" like pizza) should be avoided...
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16/ But it's a big leap from abandoning designed-by-cronyism-for-cronyism safety nets in favor of cash to thinking UBI can "solve" dignity
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The human potential as equity shared by society is as powerful a concept as it gets. Request that this be written up as white paper.
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