• plinky [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    nah, need to cut job hours. Education doesn’t get better with more years

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I disagree. There is literally always more to learn. Have people learn more than one field, make some humanities mandatory. Slow down the existing degrees and splice the two together to create more rounded people with greater cultural understanding/influence, etc etc.

      Not to mention the fact that you will need to provide liberals with a reason to give these people state benefits to survive, eat, drink, rent, etc. If there are no jobs, keeping them in education longer solves that by providing "in education" as the reason for the benefits instead of "unemployed".

      • plinky [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        There is, but at some point you have to apply learned to stuff to solve naturally occurring problems and find what you need to learn to solve them, or you feel like you are learning random shit.

        Liberals will think what porky wants them to think. If ubi will be the way of maintaining the system, liberals will accept it :edgeworth-shrug:

      • old_goat [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Higher education is already unaffordable as fuck and you want to make it twice as long?

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Not everyone is american. But I'm not suggesting it shouldn't also be completely free. Makes no sense as a means of giving more people a thing to do in a world with fewer jobs otherwise.

      • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I know my perception is heavily influenced by the status quo of how higher education works now, and I'm fully open to expanding academia for those who want it, but I would literally rather pull my teeth out than have spent another 5 years in school. So much of it is either so fully in the realm of theoretical that it boils down to little more than a circlejerk among the handful of people who can even pretend to understand it or practical application of concepts that are thirty years out of date because of the divide between the real world and professors.