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![]() If they are so much smarter and better than everyone else they should be able to survive just fine without the tax payers supporting them right? There is a reason why the scientific method has an experiment stage instead of going straight from the hypothesis to circle jerking against everyone that disagrees with you. There has to be a more compelling justification than the fact that their biggest fans will berate you and deflect any sort of criticism with snide sarcasm if you call them out. If they are dependent on tax money then they are dependent on public support but they don't call them ivory towers for nothing.
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![]() The government shouldn't be dumping cash on what's not productive enough. That includes education.
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That does raise an interesting point. As automation and technology increases, the need and frankly, incentive, to produce an intelligent constituency begins to vanish. It's very possible that we may back slide into an age of ignorance, and Government being in control of education might just promise it.
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Well if Trump has his way the Department of Education will be abolished and school choice will become more prominent so I bet our education will be less about teaching obedience. |
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![]() I don't think you will be able to automate everything and I say that as someone who has been on the floor of manufacturing factories and has family that work in manufacturing. You will always need technicians and engineers.
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The way it is in the US and Canada there isn't too much of an incentive for the state to control education too much. They give ya loans and then you pay out the ass for years in order to pay it off. It doesn't matter if the degree is a successful one or not you're still paying for the interest like a good little debtor. Now IIRC the way you have it in Germany is that the government pays for it BUT since the government pays for it they don't want you to get a useless degree and waste cash. Due to this, the German government encourages people to go for STEM and the humanities are heavily restricted. The American/Canadian system comes across as a scam which wants you to be a good little debt slave. The German system seems to be one which wants you to actually do something useful. Pretty sure the Germans also have it full funded by the state if your a citizen too. Goodbye gender studies degrees if the government thinks they are worthless among others. As it stands right now it feels like a Banker's scheme though. Also a dumb citizenry is an issue that will arrive but not for the reason people think. It's dysgenics silly. ![]() |
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But yeah, I get you. The problem is it doesn't matter if it's just a lot less employees to that scenario.
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![]() I don't think money is the biggest barrier for people to get STEM degrees. It is the curriculum. Even private loaners would give you a loan for a STEM degree because you could easily pay it back. I like the idea that college cuts down on costs so you can pay it out of pocket or an employer would be willing to pay for it.
Government funding belongs in K-12 because everyone goes there and 90% of people graduate with a high school diploma. I don't think it would even be worthwhile for 90% of people to go to college because that is 4-6 years of someone's life and it would be absurdly expensive. The <30% of the population that goes to college and some of the degrees being given out doesn't make it worthy of public investment. Libraries and museums are much more accessible and you don't need a degree to be a lover of art or history. I think the library and museum concept could easily make a break through on the internet as well. If the government pays that means they are in control of the curriculum and as long as they can get people to vote for them unquestionable it really doesn't matter how poor or dependent people are. People will always find other jobs. We transitioned from a agricultural economy to an industrial one just fine. If we only cared about jobs and not value we could just use spoons instead of shovels to dig and we could even pay people to dig holes and fill them back up. |
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That's not the same as being replaced with an advanced AI that can do it better
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We don't use advanced AI to automate anything right now. Self driven cars aren't even AI. Cashiers are replaced with touch screens. Robots usually have simple functions. Those robots still need electrical engineers to design them and repair them if they don't work. You don't buy equipment used for manufacturing at Walmart. You make them from scratch of buy them from someone else. It isn't something that is mass produced. |
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![]() Lockheed Martin CEO promises Trump she'll cut F-35 costs
Better to find cost savings here than screwing over a bunch of 20 year olds by making them work more hours, spend more time deployed, and shortchanging them especially when they are being sent into harms way! |
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