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> Most people in prison are too stupid for college. Agreed, this is probably true for our current definition of "college" > A much better solution is to limit
by exolymph 9y ago
> Most people in prison are too stupid for college.
Agreed, this is probably true for our current definition of "college"
> A much better solution is to limit college education to a fixed single digit percentage of the population so it can't be used as an expensive arms race of a signaling mechanism by everybody else.
Holy shit, that's a galaxy brain take. I agree that college status signaling is out of control, but doing this would just move the signaling elsewhere. Also it would be a bit fascist IMO.
Anyway, upvoted for interestingness.
- SamReidHughes 9y agoWell I don't mean to ban private colleges -- don't have public ones other than top level state schools, and don't subsidize loans. Replace four years of debt/idleness with four years of income, and later, more years of retirement.