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A comment on Harvard and MIT's $800M Mistake: The Triple Failure of 2U, EdX, and Axim. Parent comment

Re:Harvard and MIT's $800M Mistake: The Triple Failure of 2U... by drawnwren on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @03:54AM (#41365397)
It’s strange to me that you can’t see the correlation between free markets and their products while simultaneously looking forward to more production from those same markets.
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Re:Harvard and MIT's $800M Mistake: The Triple Failure of 2U... by Hellolearning on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @10:29AM (#41367941)
Get rid of all unnecessary things and overhead in our society and we do not have a resource issue.

Focus on automatisation and we don't have a production issue.

Its a man made problem, not some kind of magic rule.

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Re:Harvard and MIT's $800M Mistake: The Triple Failure of 2U... by drawnwren on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:41PM (#41371194)
I think this is one of those wordcel arguments that sounds nice but probably has no bearing on actual reality.

If we live in a world where human effort has no marginal utility, we also live in a world where human life has no value. If we don't, you're in a world where you're competing with other humans for some set of resources. Regardless of whether you believe that you are competing with them, others are competing with you.

I think competition is perhaps one of the most basic rules of reality.

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