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Re:U.S. Citizens Now Hold About $1.3 Trillion in Student Loa... by JustSomeNobody on Monday November 21, 2016 @08:59AM (#13005372)
If we have basic income, why do we need to be educated at all? Just stay home and live minimally.
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Re:U.S. Citizens Now Hold About $1.3 Trillion in Student Loa... by Fargren on Monday November 21, 2016 @09:29AM (#13005603)
Because self-actualization is a human need and for a lot of people education is a means for that. Because some of us enjoy creating things that are of value to others. Because life is more than survival, basically.
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Re:U.S. Citizens Now Hold About $1.3 Trillion in Student Loa... by exclusiv on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @03:32AM (#13012606)
You may be right on some, but if it was a good idea you would have said most.
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Re:U.S. Citizens Now Hold About $1.3 Trillion in Student Loa... by Fargren on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @08:51AM (#13014081)
Are we talking about UBI, or about education? Because if it's UBI, what I mentioned was just one of the mechanisms by which it could work. But I honestly don't know if it would. I suspect it would, but we can't know without more research and tests. Human behaviour is too complex to model a priori.
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Re:U.S. Citizens Now Hold About $1.3 Trillion in Student Loa... by JulianMorrison on Monday November 21, 2016 @11:34AM (#13006665)
People like to learn things, if the desire hasn't been regimented out of them and their energy drained to the dregs.
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Re:U.S. Citizens Now Hold About $1.3 Trillion in Student Loa... by dragonwriter on Monday November 21, 2016 @09:04AM (#13005407)
Because democracy. One of the major reasons we need education now.
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