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Assuming what’s painfully obvious to you is painfully obvious to everyone is how major accidents and mistakes happen. What you have described is an indictment

by mint2 6y ago

Assuming what’s painfully obvious to you is painfully obvious to everyone is how major accidents and mistakes happen. What you have described is an indictment of our educational system on several different fronts, and a testimony of the need for broad education not just giving people enough to know a narrow field where they can earn money but be ignorant and uniformed of everything else. Their inability to see what seems like common sense to people familiar with washes is one example. Your inability to see that people without any background knowledge on a topic will have trouble understanding the topic is another example.

leetcrew 6y ago
> What you have described is an indictment of our educational system on several different fronts, and a testimony of the need for broad education not just giving people enough to know a narrow field where they can earn money but be ignorant and uniformed of everything else. this is a bit much. all you need to understand to recognize the potential problem is the basic fact that water flows downhill. this is sort of like buying a house right next to a college dorm during the summer break and complaining that no one warned you college kids like to party.
onecommentman 6y ago
Dialing down the blast radius on your comment, imagine if homebuyers were required to pass the same sort of locally-tuned competency test on houses and real estate that new drivers must pass to get their driver’s license. No need to restructure the educational system. Imagine a “renter’s/buyer’s” general ED course in high school, and requiring the passing of a local “buyer’s test” prior to signing. It would be prudent from an investment standpoint and a “Welcome to the neighborhood” for newcomers who have never lived in a flood plain, experienced a tornado, etc. or even owned a home.

by mint2 6y ago

leetcrew 6y ago

> What you have described is an indictment of our educational system on several different fronts, and a testimony of the need for broad education not just giving people enough to know a narrow field where they can earn money but be ignorant and uniformed of everything else. this is a bit much. all you need to understand to recognize the potential problem is the basic fact that water flows downhill. this is sort of like buying a house right next to a college dorm during the summer break and complaining that no one warned you college kids like to party.

onecommentman 6y ago

Dialing down the blast radius on your comment, imagine if homebuyers were required to pass the same sort of locally-tuned competency test on houses and real estate that new drivers must pass to get their driver’s license. No need to restructure the educational system. Imagine a “renter’s/buyer’s” general ED course in high school, and requiring the passing of a local “buyer’s test” prior to signing. It would be prudent from an investment standpoint and a “Welcome to the neighborhood” for newcomers who have never lived in a flood plain, experienced a tornado, etc. or even owned a home.