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Education alone does tend to make people better neighbours. There is true value in education, but unfortunately the only market demand is for people who are in
by danieltillett 11y ago
Education alone does tend to make people better neighbours.
There is true value in education, but unfortunately the only market demand is for people who are intelligent, conscientious and educated in certain fields. Hit all three and you are in demand otherwise a life of dead end jobs awaits you.
- Moshe_Silnorin 11y agoEducation is a proxy for IQ and conscientiousness. People with these characteristics (and importantly the wealth this provides) tend to make better neighbours. Zuck dropped out of college, yet I very much doubt he'd be a terrible neighbour, nor would a neighbourhood full of Harvard dropouts be bad.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoThe scuttlebutt around the neighborhood is actually that Zuck is a bit of a jackass, neighbor-wise. http://sfist.com/2016/01/13/zuckerberg_neighbor_wages_campaign.php http://sfist.com/2016/01/13/zuckerberg_neighbor_wages_campai...
- Moshe_Silnorin 11y agoMost of the problems seem to be externalities of his fame and wealth. Say Facebook didn't work out and he got a job at Google, I doubt he would be considered a bad neighbour.
- eli_gottlieb 11y ago>nor would a neighbourhood full of Harvard dropouts be bad. I think that surveying Alston or Cambridge might not lead to this conclusion.
- danieltillett 11y agoYes education correlates quite tightly with intelligence and conscientiousness, but just raising education levels on their own makes for better neighbours. Education is a good thing for all - the problem is we don’t have the jobs to go with all this education.