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Tl;dr I burned out.

Your response is vague. Who are the cohort?

I disagree with you, btw, since much risk on some loans is passed to the US federal government.

It's childish behavior like running away and defailting that cause student loans to be expensive for the rest of us. Man up, it's not a lot of money.

As a civil engineer I am seeing a lot of ignorance on the part of the hackers towards the physical sciences, especially the author.

Software debugging has 2 parts:

a) find the bug - lucky for you a machine does this step automatically

b) fix the bug - once the bug is found this is self explained

Industrial debugging has 2 parts:

a) find the bug - requires going on the production floor and measuring things

b) fix the bug - once the bug is found this is self explained

How are they different?

"better"

What does that word even mean?

If metric were so superior people would just do it because it made things easier.

People don't have incentive to switch, because most people don't have to do math.

When people help each other it's called "community". Its a social behavior as old as history.

Community cannot be coerced.

Unrelated - money is no longer on gold-standard it is on labor standard. One US dollar is equal to an amount of productivity. They cannot be decoupled without dangerous effects. Gold was once an efficient measure of labor and was hence a form of money. Labor is and has always been the unitary method of exchange.

it's such a new idea google can't even find it

Can you recommend any further reading for in-deflation?