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This is a rant, but I think our generation deserves the right to rant about our overpriced educations, etc... The current university model, the subsidies, the
by wallace_f 8y ago
This is a rant, but I think our generation deserves the right to rant about our overpriced educations, etc...
The current university model, the subsidies, the regulatory capture, the administrarive state, etc, are all just part of the idea that everything can be regulated and socially engineered by people who are smarter than others. It's just modern day fiefdoms of lords and peons.
It's all a train wreck. Science has stagnated and everyone knows it despite all the mental gymnastics we use to try and deny it. For many Americans, they are the first generation to live with worse job, housing, work/life balance, income security than their parents. We have escalating rates of suicide and depression. We are the first generation of Americans to live under a surveillance state.
To be honest, San Francisco and Seattle both look and feel far, far more dystopian to me than Tokyo, Seoul, and Taipei. Even more than Hanoi or Kuala Lumpur, despite the fact they still struggle with deeply entrenched corruption, infrastructure and human rights. And yet this problem in America will be met with yet another round of bureaucrats and technocrats coming up with a solution that is more and more of taxing and regulating our lives.
I'd rather they just give everyone basic income/healthcare and let them sort it out on their own.
- mjevans 8y agoI agree full healthcare for all is something we should have. I'm also willing to consider something slightly short of basic income: a new "new deal". Anyone that wants to work should be able to work. A job provider of baseline resort. That would also be how minimum wages are set (the market price is set by this job provision via some other process). However consumer buying power should be part of active market control in the form of regulations that discourage inflation by encouraging the market towards positive equilibrium rather than cyclic loops of inflation and crashes (which arguably we're still suffering from the lack of; there was no actual correction in many areas during the last/current recession).