The main problem seems to be the increased cost of education (caused by higher demand) rather than the side effect of creating a more educated population.
Nope. The population is not becoming more educated; colleges are dumbing themselves down to become poor imitations of trade schools in an effort to accommodate all these losers that are allowed to get granted/loans and allowed into the colleges.
Do you actually believe this?
Why shouldn't he?
Do you believe that the population is becoming more genuinely educated?
Doesn't this attitude presuppose that a college education provides exactly zero value to students that would have otherwise gone to trade schools or just been happy with a high school diploma.
No, that's looking through the wrong end of the telescope.
The issue is that not everyone has the aptitude for college-level academics. That's just a fact, and it doesn't change just because you lower admission standards or degree standards or throw more money at it.
I don't fly anymore, because I don't enjoy voluntary root canals, but...
I went through an automated car wash recently, and instead of pushing a few buttons and swiping my card, I got to listen to a video of a cheerful smiling woman in a car (with her adorable "daughter" beside her!) explaining each step in painful marketese... every time I did anything, she started over, talking (obliquely, tediously) about the new step I was on... by the time I could actually drive into the car wash I was ready to rip out the screen and beat myself over the head with it.
If you are going to automate, then at least make it quick and efficient. If you want the human touch, use actual humans. (Well, just not that actual human, please.)
(That's why vertigo sufferers may NOT have attacks in MOVING vehicles...)
I have no problem in a vehicle at all, at least not when I'm driving. After all, I'm sitting basically still and upright, and my visual processing is running the show.
It's when I'm bending, twisting, picking up objects, etc. that I get vertigo.
Heck, I don't even wear a dumb watch, and I haven't for years. My phone has a huge time display right on it. And I sit in front of a computer all work day. What do I want a watch for?
...we're lead to believe with enough money for education everyone can be intelligent!
Appropriate general education ensures that we all have a chance to get to a certain level. Surely some people are more intelligent than others at baseline, but like most characteristics it needs to be exercised and developed... in the absence of education, it's easy to waste what you were born with, and that's what general education tries to prevent - the waste of intelligence. The other important role of education is to ensure that no matter what your level of education, you receive instruction sufficient to let you integrate into society.
Thought experiment: if we had perfect education, whatever that might be, then the only differences in the per-person outcome would be due to individual aptitude.
Farming was once 90%+of the population. It's been less than 3% (in the US) for a LONG time. Technology has been increasing productivity for thousands of years. The dystopias don't come from technology.
Sorry, robots didn't take a giant leap in 2008. There must be some other "mysterious" reason for the ongoing malaise...
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Spear and magic helllllemt!
If you want to bring three hundred people half way around the world, don't try to do it on your bicycle.
Better that than on an ocean liner mounted on absurdly convoluted bicycle wheels.
I mean, as long as we're doing the wildly inapropos metaphor thing ...
Makes the Patriot Act seem kind of quaint, no?
So now we're going to tar and feather the current President over this, right? Since he's far worse?
What's that, no? Just vaguely complain?
... if you were hoping for friends of high paying, non-government, white collar jobs, perhaps Obama/Biden wasn't the smartest choice, my coder bros ...
I don't care about the battery, I care more on the personal info that google crawls.
Well, I care about the battery. If I'm going to trade my privacy for cool stuff, it had better dang well be cool!
... why should the Democratic Party be the only ones who can exploit telegenic groups to further their interests?
My five-year plan says that this study is false! And that steel production is up 5000%!
The main problem seems to be the increased cost of education (caused by higher demand) rather than the side effect of creating a more educated population.
Nope. The population is not becoming more educated; colleges are dumbing themselves down to become poor imitations of trade schools in an effort to accommodate all these losers that are allowed to get granted/loans and allowed into the colleges.
Do you actually believe this?
Why shouldn't he?
Do you believe that the population is becoming more genuinely educated?
Doesn't this attitude presuppose that a college education provides exactly zero value to students that would have otherwise gone to trade schools or just been happy with a high school diploma.
No, that's looking through the wrong end of the telescope.
The issue is that not everyone has the aptitude for college-level academics. That's just a fact, and it doesn't change just because you lower admission standards or degree standards or throw more money at it.
Price controls never have negative effects.
In that case, why not $20/hr? $50/hr? Since it has no negative effect.
hoping that WW3 and the religious crazies don't overwhelm the world before I kick the bucket.
Yeah, those Presbyterians are really on a rampage, aren't they?
I don't fly anymore, because I don't enjoy voluntary root canals, but ...
I went through an automated car wash recently, and instead of pushing a few buttons and swiping my card, I got to listen to a video of a cheerful smiling woman in a car (with her adorable "daughter" beside her!) explaining each step in painful marketese ... every time I did anything, she started over, talking (obliquely, tediously) about the new step I was on ... by the time I could actually drive into the car wash I was ready to rip out the screen and beat myself over the head with it.
If you are going to automate, then at least make it quick and efficient. If you want the human touch, use actual humans. (Well, just not that actual human, please.)
CNN's in-your-face, your-video-will-play-in-00:25-seconds approach, once unthinkable, has become the norm.
Why unthinkable? Why should free video be so very different from free TV?
(That's why vertigo sufferers may NOT have attacks in MOVING vehicles...)
I have no problem in a vehicle at all, at least not when I'm driving. After all, I'm sitting basically still and upright, and my visual processing is running the show.
It's when I'm bending, twisting, picking up objects, etc. that I get vertigo.
No, really, I mean they actually horrify me. It's special.
Thank goodness we dodged that car elevator guy, and got the smartest, fairest, most "progressive", most open and honest president ever!
Oh, that's right, I forgot. He's not responsible for anything that happens under him.
Heck, I don't even wear a dumb watch, and I haven't for years. My phone has a huge time display right on it. And I sit in front of a computer all work day. What do I want a watch for?
I'll feed this troll.
...we're lead to believe with enough money for education everyone can be intelligent!
Appropriate general education ensures that we all have a chance to get to a certain level. Surely some people are more intelligent than others at baseline, but like most characteristics it needs to be exercised and developed... in the absence of education, it's easy to waste what you were born with, and that's what general education tries to prevent - the waste of intelligence. The other important role of education is to ensure that no matter what your level of education, you receive instruction sufficient to let you integrate into society.
Thought experiment: if we had perfect education, whatever that might be, then the only differences in the per-person outcome would be due to individual aptitude.
Think there wouldn't be differences?
... thank goodness the Feds are taking ever larger roles in healthcare! Clearly, they know what they are doing.
Sure. The people they don't like. That way the rural areas are so much purer, the air is cleaner, and the schools better.
Oh, I see. Are we talking about the "Republican" enclaves like Martha's Vineyard, the Kennedy Compound ...
sounds like a republican capitalist paradise. we should import a couple of the Dubai leaders to put the US poor to work. finally.
Right ... because it's Republicans who want to concentrate people in cities. Got it.
What I cannot understand is how politicians fail to understand what a future Kenneth Starr is going to do with data like this.
It's one current Barry Sotero who is doing the spying, not a future or past Ken Starr.
And he's doing it to you and me, not to public perjurers.
Farming was once 90%+of the population. It's been less than 3% (in the US) for a LONG time. Technology has been increasing productivity for thousands of years. The dystopias don't come from technology.
Sorry, robots didn't take a giant leap in 2008. There must be some other "mysterious" reason for the ongoing malaise ...
Communisum has a lot of real problems but having to "murder" people who are "motivated" is not one of them.
Er, except that's what communism has actually done, you see. In country after country.
That's the problem with your analysis.
about the same length as 40,000 subway cars connected in a single, long train
Crazy Unit of the Year award!
Also, a foreigner is less likely to job-hop for a better salary after a year.
Um, yeah; especially if their visa doesn't allow them to.