You know, I wonder why we can't solve this problem more creatively. And by creatively, I mean with some common sense. We have no shortage of problems here. Som

You know, I wonder why we can't solve this problem more creatively. And by creatively, I mean with some common sense. We have no shortage of problems here. Some of these problems include crumbling infrastructure and a lack of affordable housing. It's often suggested in Hacker News that 1. college education is too expensive and 2. college education isn't worth it. But we also forget that college education isn't just for the individual, but for society's benefit. -Bill Clinton- JFK introduced the peace corps. Why don't we have a round two of that? In exchange for working in the corp, you can get a government-funded college education, in a state school if you do okay on some tests, and with an additional stipend to get into whatever you get into if you do better. We could let college admissions do some part of that lifting. I don't know. Is this too obvious? Instead of people fighting pointless wars overseas, we can instead have them (re-)build their own country, literally. In California alone we supposedly have 130bn in infrastructure updates. edit: thanks dragonwriter for the correction.