It's interesting that people seem to think the problem is "politically motivated" revoking of degrees, rather than the degree requirement itself. It's like no

It's interesting that people seem to think the problem is "politically motivated" revoking of degrees, rather than the degree requirement itself. It's like no one thought even a single step ahead about the consequences of a degree requirement. It just moves power to the people that give out degrees. Some people are clearly only pretending not to understand this, but a significant amount seem to really not understand it. This extends to other areas of economics and politics too, where most proposed systems only move or concentrate power and don't have the desired effect at all. I'm not sure where the educational failure here is. It seems like the only people that engage with these problems honestly and seriously are cryptocurrency developers and cryptographers. I would imagine mainstream economists are only pretending not to understand. Meanwhile some large fraction of the population really does think you can just declare by fiat that presidents have to be more educated and it will just work.