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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by lmm on Monday June 05, 2017 @06:49AM (#14486606)
Well, why not?

If those "thinkers" were really contributing something valuable, that will show up in ROI. If you don't agree with that measure, how do you propose to eliminate completely useless classes and make space for better alternatives? Do you just assume that any classes that are part of the status quo must be valuable?

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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by bbcbasic on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @12:23AM (#14494726)
Value for society != Roi

There are so many examples of this I don't know where to begin. Ok I'll start: Fracking.

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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by lmm on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @05:23AM (#14495862)
Externalities are a small, specific issue and we have ways of dealing with them. Again, how do you propose to measure this "value for society"?
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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by bbcbasic on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @06:18AM (#14496107)
Externialities. Like climate change? Yep we've got that under complete control.

Another good example of chasing the mighty fractionally reserved greenback:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14495950

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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by lmm on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @04:49AM (#14504637)
So do you have a proposed improvement? I think taking schooling time away from history and sport and putting it towards coding would make us more, not less, likely to solve climate change.
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