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The first PhD was awarded in France in 1150 CE.

Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and even Pre-Columbus America had complex cultural customs, art, math, engineering, medicine, language they handed down generationally.

University as we know it is a relic of Medieval European tradition.

It could be argued but it’s a large assumption on its own.

Stock markets are recent inventions; some hand wavy way of saying “this is exactly the right way to store value!”

Why must that ideal be externalized onto others? Why do I have to believe some hedge fund is indeed worth N dollars?

Mendacity of the elderly is not a good enough justification for belief.

Correctly engineering a road, medicine, or making art does not at all rely on such belief.

I can’t tell if things like this are real issues or “but think of the horse and buggy driver!” problems.

We were teaching kids to read, ethics, morals, long before we had PhDs.

Obsession with normalizing agency to abide fiscal concerns is the real issue here.

Let wealth collapse by refusing to buy into the idea we owe deference to those that hold wealth.

Teach the classics. Write open source.

None of it has to be done for a dollar, or outsized prestige.

It’s been shown that words mean different things given geographical region.

One brain is not composed of the same experiential model, and as a result, neurological model, as others.

Physics > chemistry -> biology -> humans -> metaphor and analogy. Kind of my mental road map for information hierarchy.

If it’s not physically quantifiable it probably falls into some category like “relative metaphor and analogy”.

Qualify it as such in the original post.

Some search engine can come along in N days, weeks, months, and provide that snippet out of the context you intended.

Social media is not a friends backyard fire pit. The information peddled here isn’t necessarily lost to memory the next day.

I don’t know you so none of this should be considered a personal attack. I’m just taking information and expanding on it.

The value they claim to unlock is completely made up.

People need logistics to move materials to enable people to do stuff.

Not speculative emotional guidance on ephemeral value stores.

Most of them are, or are funded by, inherited wealth to service fiscal policy memes.

> A rich kid is much more likely to leave an impact on the world

A rich person is subsidized by society. Why should we optimize fiscal policy to enable them and let them leave an outsized impact on the world?

Especially when the outsized impact of the rich is inequality, anti-democratic political norms, and environmental destruction?

They have no skills, or information advantage. Just a network effect advantage through monopoly of a shared value store. I see little difference with this system compared to monarchy or theology rule, which were also hierarchical, with ones power based on closeness to power, and monopoly of value store and public time economy.

To clarify, I mean wealthy non-doers. Hedge funds, old wealth, etc.

Doctors, engineers, etc., sure let us give them our ear. Unskilled rich are a drain on public agency.