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I'd swap my smartphone for affordable education, housing and healthcare any day.

• jsight 11y ago
  I wouldn't swap healthcare of today with healthcare from the 60s, though.
• peterfirefly 11y ago
  Would you? Can't you get better education (though without the diploma) out of your smartphone than you could out of almost all universities in the sixties? Isn't wikipedia more correct than most textbooks from that day? Isn't pubmed better? Isn't it easy to find lots of scanned textbooks from helpful servers in Iran, Turkey, China, etc.? Much easier than finding good textbooks in a university library back in the day?
  • crdoconnor 11y ago
    >Can't you get better education (though without the diploma) out of your smartphone than you could out of almost all universities in the sixties? So you're saying that you'd rather no degree and a few notches on your coursera belt than a degree from a prestigious university from the 1960s? Are you nuts?
  • rhino369 11y ago
    >Can't you get better education (though without the diploma) out of your smartphone than you could out of almost all universities in the sixties? Even if you ignore diploma, networking, and signaling, I still think the answer is no.
• drzaiusapelord 11y ago
  1920's housing wouldn't be too terrible I guess but 1920's healthcare? Yeah, I'll take the smartphone. I'll also take being a minority today than back then, but I'm assuming like most HN'ers you're a white male, so you should be ok. Not to mention, many western nations get healthcare right, we just don't. That's a political issue much more than a economic one.