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If by education GP means higher education then I can possibly add something: IIRC there already seems to be a shortage of craftsmen (carpenters, welders, plumbers etc) and a surplus of people with various higher educations.
a shortage that's not reflected in the wages for skilled jobs (outside of powerful unions)
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>As a result, my thinking has changed to ... UBI is foolish Could you elaborate on what made you change your mind regarding UBI? It'd be interesting to hear your perspective on this.
Working class wants to work.
This article is saying smart people don't understand how the world works because most of the world's people are average intelligence. This sentiment is completely ridiculous, yet I'm sure a lot of people believe it because it makes them feel superior. Pundits and professors are often wrong, but it isn't because they are highly educated. I still trust the opinion of a professor rather than someone working at Pizza Hut…
[1](https://www.amazon.com/Future-Babble-Expert-Predictions-Beli...) [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox)
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> This article is saying smart people don't understand how the world works because most of the world's people are average intelligence. Not at all. It says highly educated people are out of touch with the realities of life of average folks because these categories have very different ranges of first-hand experience.
Why do you think they have different ranges of first-hand experiences? It is undeniable that by any objective measure professors are smarter (in the sense of being better able to tackle intellectual problems) than the average population. Do you honestly think someone working at Burger King has a better understanding of the world than a professor? I urge you to actually have a conversation with such a person.
Because the professor works at a university, having first attended the university and then graduate school, whereas the person working at Burger King most likely never graduated college, and works at Burger King rather than as a professor at a university. Those seem to me to be rather different "ranges of first-hand experience". I don't see how they could be considered anything but different.
Couldn't I just as easily state "the french-fry cook doesn't know anything about the life of a philosopher"? Everybody's view of the world is limited by their own experiences. Does that mean everybody therefore misunderstands the world?
This link is in first position, was submitted 20 minutes ago and has 14 points, yet the host is unreachable. I'm interested in knowing if people actually read the article or upvoted the title?
I suspect that that sentence would have been just as accurate with "and so" replacing "yet"... The various errors (I got a 500 when I first tried to read it, but got through later; others have reported DB errors) are because the infrastructure can't handle the attention.
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If by education GP means higher education then I can possibly add something: IIRC there already seems to be a shortage of craftsmen (carpenters, welders, plumbers etc) and a surplus of people with various higher educations.
a shortage that's not reflected in the wages for skilled jobs (outside of powerful unions)
Man I sometimes wished I had a valid mechanicans or electricians certification during the oil boom here ;-)
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Why do you think they have different ranges of first-hand experiences? It is undeniable that by any objective measure professors are smarter (in the sense of being better able to tackle intellectual problems) than the average population. Do you honestly think someone working at Burger King has a better understanding of the world than a professor? I urge you to actually have a conversation with such a person.
Well, that would depend on what you mean by "the world." Professors have first hand knowledge of a very particular set of social practices and institutions. These tend to be very important practices and institutions, but they are only directly experienced by a small group of people. Someone working at Burger King will typically have participated in a quite different set of practices and institutions. And there are a…
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>As a result, my thinking has changed to ... UBI is foolish Could you elaborate on what made you change your mind regarding UBI? It'd be interesting to hear your perspective on this.
Working class wants to work.
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>As a result, my thinking has changed to ... UBI is foolish Could you elaborate on what made you change your mind regarding UBI? It'd be interesting to hear your perspective on this.
Working class wants to work.
One of the principal selling points for UBI as a replacement for existing means tested social benefit programs is that it eliminates the perverse incentives created by means tested programs in which benefits are reduced by outside income (especially from work), at a rate that, in aggregate across the programs a person may be eligible for, may even exceed the after-tax income from work.
A selling point it has as a replacement for minimum wage is that it provides a quality-of-life safety net without preventing work that people would willingly do, and which would be economically valuable for employers, by setting a floor on minimum hourly pay.
UBI is, arguably, more in line with "working class wants to work" than the status quo it is offered to replace.