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by skh 8y ago
In all lending situations both the borrower and lender have responsibilities and one side should not shoulder an undue amount of the ire. This view has nothing to do with my beliefs about higher education.
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by skh 8y ago
Since Europe does not seem to have too many gender studies students and they have nearly free higher education it does not appear that the evidence supports your position of there being increasing gender studies students as a result of free
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by skh 8y ago
I can’t think of a reason why the number of gender studies students would increase under a universal higher education system for qualified students. Europe does not appear to be overwhelmed by gender studies graduates. Given the sexual ha
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by skh 8y ago
I believe for public universities the cost driver has been an increase in administrators and a decrease in funding per student.
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by skh 8y ago
Lenders, through lobbying and regulatory capture, created the system. At least as I see things.
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by skh 8y ago
Yes. This is what I advocate.
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by skh 8y ago
I don’t want lenders at all. Higher education is a public good in the same way k-12 is. I’m in favor of free higher education for qualified people.
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by skh 8y ago
Often times when student loans come up people blame exclusively the borrower. We should keep in mind that in a properly functioning lending market both the borrower and lender take on risk. The lender should not left out of the equation o
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by skh 8y ago
I think you misunderstand my post. The person who was quoted as saying that “ignorant” isn’t pejorative since the dictionary definition of the word isn’t pejorative is being an ass. Colloquial usage trumps dictionary definitions when it c
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by skh 8y ago
Far too often people confuse dictionary definitions and colloquial usage. Dictionary definitions always lag colloquial usage. The meaning of words comes from their usage and the quote you referred to seems like someone being intentionally
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by skh 8y ago
Do no evil apparently does not extend to doing the right thing. It should not take publicity to force companies/people to do the right thing.
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by skh 8y ago
The solution is to have far fewer people. If the population of the planet were far less then there would be enough resources and space for everyone without destroying the planet.
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by skh 8y ago
Instead of looking at the headline read the article. It’s clearly about the lack of pricing power for labor. The author is decrying the absence of pricing power on the part of labor so responding with a suggestion to further erode that pr
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by skh 8y ago
Labor has virtually no pricing power in the U.S. except in a few industries. Minimum wage laws and licensing laws are the cause of U.S. labor markets not being a truly free market. Did you read the article? The author clearly paints a pic
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by skh 8y ago
The U.S. takes medical talent from other countries including poor ones. Those countries make an investment in these docotors and they leave for the U.S. for economic reasons. We shouldn’t complain if it starts to go the other way should w
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by skh 8y ago
My wife has $400,000 of medical student loan debt. We are on PSLF but are nervous about the program and question if her student loans will really be forgiven. If they are not forgiven at the end of our 10 years of qualifying payments we p
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by skh 8y ago
I propose that the single data point perception comes from the media and not the experts. The writers of articles in newspapers and popular media are not necessarily well informed. Reporters cling to the “single data point” it seems to me
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by skh 8y ago
You appear to be deliberately misinterpreting the point I made. You made a claim to not buying arguments made from authority and I pointed out that you do buy some arguments made from authority. You do so every time you listen to your d
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by skh 8y ago
The argumentative fallacy is called the fallacy of the false appeal to authority. For instance citing a person's Ph.D. in English literature as a reason to believe their statements on quantum mechanics is an example of fallacious reas
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by skh 8y ago
What is interesting is that a non expert in the field feels qualified to judge the motivations of the experts. Consider that your opinion is not all on the same level of credence as that of the experts and should not be given anywhere near
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by skh 8y ago
You are not an expert in this area I presume. You brought up some thoughtful questions and points which could skew measurements. Now if you a non expert can think of these possibilities doesn’t seem reasonable that the experts have though
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by skh 8y ago
My sarcasm was to make a point. The way for retail to combat Amazon is not to become even more annoying and give people reasons to not want to go to a store. People value convenience a lot. Hence Facebook's rise despite their shenan
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by skh 8y ago
In an effort to combat the rise of Amazon retail stores have decided to make going to them a miserable experience. From dumb questions asking if you are a rewards member to personally intrusive questions asking what big plans you have this
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by skh 8y ago
All of them except the UK, Poland, Estonia, and Greece. The ones that face credible threats are Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and to a lesser extent Norway. The Netherlands believes they are fighting a cyber war with Russia. Trump i
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by skh 8y ago
Perhaps the U.S. should go ahead and formalize the feudal system we seem to be implementing piecemeal.
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by skh 8y ago
Your response is condescending. Especially the “the cue was a....” part.
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by skh 8y ago
I agree with the tenor of your post but there has been tipping creep. A line must be drawn! It wasn't too long ago that coffee shops did not have tips. I'm old enough that it's been ingrained into me that I don't need
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by skh 8y ago
Someday Americans will hopefully devise a system where bad actors can be punished without fear of jeopardizing their ability to retire or receive other benefits.
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by skh 8y ago
How can they write a blog post about new products with no links to actually buy said product? I see this a lot with corporate blogs. Why don’t they link to the corporate homepage or to the store where I can buy the product?
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by skh 8y ago
An individual moving is not a problem. Entire nations needing to move is.

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