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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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