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    1. 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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    2. 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

      2 replies 44 retweets 72 likes
    3. 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

      1 reply 22 retweets 39 likes
    4. 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 5 retweets 19 likes
    5. 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

      5 replies 23 retweets 47 likes
    6. 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

      2 replies 12 retweets 44 likes
    7. 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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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2016
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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

      1 reply 7 retweets 24 likes
    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2016
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      14/ Biggest point of contention in system design: is "dignity" (as opposed to food, shelter, healthcare) a safety net variable?

      3 replies 3 retweets 18 likes
    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2016
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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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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2016
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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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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2016
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          17/ There's no alternate path to dignity besides earning admiration of the broad slice of society that bets on your value through good work

          3 replies 1 retweet 25 likes
        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2016
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          18/ If only other art historians think you're valuable, or only other Ruby programmers think you are valuable, that's not enough

          3 replies 3 retweets 15 likes
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