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I don't know about the whole world, but I know the most important 3 problems in the US: the cost of housing is too high, the cost of healthcare is too high, and

I don't know about the whole world, but I know the most important 3 problems in the US: the cost of housing is too high, the cost of healthcare is too high, and the cost of education is too high. I'm not working on any of the above 3 problems, because I have to pay for housing, I have to pay for healthcare, and I have to save for the education for my kids.

swagasaurus-rex 4y ago
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- toast0 4y ago
  Housing manufactured overseas is difficult to import, sure. Manufactured housing has an image problem, but transporting it is expensive, so even building it in Mexico isn't very economical. And construction cost isn't the root of the problem. You could maybe export people to less expensive housing, but that's not popular either. You can import healthcare though. Of course, pharmaceuticals and medical devices are already imported. Medical professionals could also be invited to work here (temporarily or as immigrants), and medical admistration could be outsourced. Lots of rule changes involved though and influential groups not desiring such changes. There's not a lot of places with excess medical professionals either, so recruiting from abroad would cause issues elsewhere. Education is similar; you can invite educated immigrants in, or you can study in other countries, or you can invite instructors from other countries. Or distance learn from other countries.
- zamfi 4y ago
  Not just unimportable — they’re things where we’ve actively created artificial scarcity!
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yucky 4y ago
> the cost of education is too high Education is essentially free, thanks to the Internet. It's the accreditation from gatekeeper institutions that can cost a fortune. I think it's vitally important that we properly define the problem in order to fix it. So, seen as a problem of overpriced accreditation rather than access to education we can logically conclude that although education is a "common good" that needs to be supported by all, maybe accreditation needs to be devalued. Surely there are far easier & cheaper ways to ensure a person knows a thing.

swagasaurus-rex 4y ago

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toast0 4y ago
Housing manufactured overseas is difficult to import, sure. Manufactured housing has an image problem, but transporting it is expensive, so even building it in Mexico isn't very economical. And construction cost isn't the root of the problem. You could maybe export people to less expensive housing, but that's not popular either. You can import healthcare though. Of course, pharmaceuticals and medical devices are already imported. Medical professionals could also be invited to work here (temporarily or as immigrants), and medical admistration could be outsourced. Lots of rule changes involved though and influential groups not desiring such changes. There's not a lot of places with excess medical professionals either, so recruiting from abroad would cause issues elsewhere. Education is similar; you can invite educated immigrants in, or you can study in other countries, or you can invite instructors from other countries. Or distance learn from other countries.
zamfi 4y ago
Not just unimportable — they’re things where we’ve actively created artificial scarcity!
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yucky 4y ago

> the cost of education is too high Education is essentially free, thanks to the Internet. It's the accreditation from gatekeeper institutions that can cost a fortune. I think it's vitally important that we properly define the problem in order to fix it. So, seen as a problem of overpriced accreditation rather than access to education we can logically conclude that although education is a "common good" that needs to be supported by all, maybe accreditation needs to be devalued. Surely there are far easier & cheaper ways to ensure a person knows a thing.