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I'm not sure about how I feel about Affirmative Action and I do appreciate another member's suggestion to look at socio-economic background. But is this really

I'm not sure about how I feel about Affirmative Action and I do appreciate another member's suggestion to look at socio-economic background. But is this really our goal? > should be a more-productive citizenry I'm not sure I care that much about that. Especially w.r.t college admissions. If you wanted to be more productive you'd not even send many people to college in the first place and just have them go straight into the labor force.

JumpCrisscross 4y ago
> wanted to be more productive you'd not even send many people to college in the first place and just have them go straight into the labor force This is incorrect. The question of education's impact on GDP per capita is thoroughly researched [1][2][3]. When one broadens to measuring living standards, the results get starker. [1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/60b0/ad7223c9ba54c73af7d3327476d51fe05933.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/60b0/ad7223c9ba54c73af7d332... [2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09654313.2018.1480707 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09654313.2018.14... [3] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ma-Wadud/publication/4804496_Relationship_between_education_and_GDP_growth_A_mutivariate_causality_analysis_for_Bangladesh/links/02e7e5376ce5d9b26f000000/Relationship-between-education-and-GDP-growth-A-mutivariate-causality-analysis-for-Bangladesh.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ma-Wadud/publication/48...