The virus has disrupted: - K-12 - bars - cities - retail - sports - hotels - airlines - offices - colleges - subways - concerts - medicine - Hollywood - immigration - conferences - supply chains - meat packing - movie theaters - aircraft carriers Do you think it all snaps back?
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Balaji Srinivasan Retweeted Neeraj K. Agrawal
Many of the foundational assumptions and/or economics of these sectors have changed forever. Pandemic insurance will be expensive. Digital alternatives will rise. And we may be just at the start. In other words, I like
@NeerajKA but disagree with this: https://twitter.com/neerajka/status/1254546852445372421?s=21 …https://twitter.com/NeerajKA/status/1254546852445372421 …Balaji Srinivasan added,
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Economics of all this will change, for sure. But let's say we get a solid vaccine and are unconstrained. (Otherwise, who knows?). Definite possibility that there will a massive outpouring of demand for all the freewheeling, crowded YOLO. Existential events do that. Roaring 20s.
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I saw people discussing how parents will now realize that they can teach their kids more via homeschooling, and won't want glorified babysitting that is school. Other option: people will embrace the "glorified babysitting" with every ounce of their being and never complain again.
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In sociology, there is a concept called "latent function"—pretty obvious. Schools don't just teach facts/skills (manifest function); they socialize and babysit. Shock makes latent function explicit: and you might be tempted to assume manifest function was all people want. Nope.
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The coronavirus makes some things that anyone who studied the institution knew kinda explicit to most everyone. Okay. It could be an opportunity to reshuffle or jettison some of the latent functions. But it's not true that the latent functions are irrelevant or unnecessary.
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Important role for almost all residential colleges (with differing degrees of payout, not differing degrees of importance) and even applies to community colleges. No scholar of education thinks colleges just teach skills. Mating, credentialism, networks, adult transition, etc.
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Replying to @Chris_arnade @zeynep and
The collectivist blocked me. She said something insane: that you can't do credentialism (databases), networks (Internet), and "adult transition" (maturation by learning) from online. How stupid!
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