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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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
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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
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@puercomal Nope. Institutions that indirectly run on the trust of whole society. That's why doctors, plumbers are legit, scientology is not
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@puercomal Didn't have room to dot all the i's and t's but I stand behind all the bullets, if you think it's wrong than we actually disagree1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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