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Re:Monopoly Technology Platforms Are Colonizing Education by wpietri on Sunday December 06, 2020 @10:38AM (#25324168)
Enumerating problems is the first step toward a solution. It's also valuable in making people aware of the problems. If you feel like you have read enough about the problems already, congrats, you're informed enough that you're not the intended audience.

And if someone's tiredness is, as you apparently believe, the most important criterion for whether something gets written, allow me to point out that I'm tired of the "don't bring me problems, bring me solutions" routine. I associate it with bad, authoritarian managers. And I think it's even less justifiable when the complainer a) isn't who the article was addressed to, and b) is complaining about a problem without offering a solution.

Re:Monopoly Technology Platforms Are Colonizing Education by darkwizard42 on Sunday December 06, 2020 @11:51AM (#25324648)
Yeah but this space/topic is FULL of people enumerating problems. The parent comment isn't saying that enumerating problems isn't useful, they are pointing out the lack of any actionable next steps being provided is the problem.
Re:Monopoly Technology Platforms Are Colonizing Education by itronitron on Sunday December 06, 2020 @05:28PM (#25327238)
I think we still need to reach the step of enumerating why the problems are problems before it will be clear to people why and how they can be addressed.