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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by tptacek on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @04:58PM (#10983829)
It isn't. That's the problem.
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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by termain on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @05:12PM (#10983933)
In the context that it's required to get certain jobs? So we -- society -- have screwed up in conflating education and job training?
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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by tptacek on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @05:25PM (#10984027)
Yes, we have.
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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by aidenn0 on Thursday January 28, 2016 @12:52AM (#10986562)
One conversation I had with a senior employee at a very large company said that university was very important for signalling. They knew that someone who went to (for example) MIT was admitted to MIT, which indicates a certain amount of raw intelligence. Their legal department would not allow administering any sort of IQ test, so the school one went to was a proxy for IQ.
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