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Okay. But what if everybody (or almost everybody) prefers SUVs? And I guess we need to extend the analogy a little more: what if everybody needs a car, and the
by trominos 18y ago
Okay.
But what if everybody (or almost everybody) prefers SUVs? And I guess we need to extend the analogy a little more: what if everybody needs a car, and their parents are buying them one, and the parents choose primarily based on cost, and hybrids cost less? But everybody wants an SUV. Maybe everybody wants an SUV to the extent that they'd be willing to personally pay for the difference in price, if they had the money. Oh, and maybe the SUVs are actually better for the environment.
...This analogy is terrible.
- byrneseyeview 18y agoThe point of the analogy was that you are trying to say that you have so looked forward to the old, stupid, obsolete system that you'd like to hold progress back a few years so you can experience it. I think that's ridiculous, and that if we were talking about how you wanted to manufacture buggy whips or VCRs, it would be obvious that getting in the way of cars and DVDs would not be worth it. If you can give me some reason that the existence of something that performs most of the functions of college, but that is cheap enough to be a viable opportunity for people who work, or people who want to get their credentials faster or whatever, is such a threat to college that it must be stopped -- but college, despite its vulnerability to better ideas, is still worth keeping around -- I'd like to hear about it. But that might be convoluted. So here's what I would ask: if we had the credentialing system and no college, how would you pitch the concept of a modern college to the typical VC?