A fundamental problem of school is there is no one anymore who focuses on what the entire goal of education is.
Everyone focuses on small local goals like “computers are good, let’s teach math focused on computers!”
People need to think “we don’t want math robots, we want kids than understand the fundamental principles of math and can apply it to a large variety of creative situations”.
I have a conspiracy theory that the Saudis and the Russians funded the keystone pipeline protests. The keystone Pipeline protests did nothing to reduce CO2 emissions, instead they increase them because heavy bunker oil will now be burned on cargo ships. Bringing the oil from the Saudis to the United States. The Saudis and the Russians funded it to increase the price of gas in the United States and make more money.
Listening to a history lecture. Royalty and Clergy have been parasites for centuries, taking massive chunks of the economy without providing value. Why do we still have any interest in the Queen of England and other royalty who enjoy riches without producing anything?
I am listening to an interesting lecture on economics 1400- modern times. Apparently, guilds and trade unions controlled supply and kept prices high. Trade unions also prevented new ideas from coming into production. Horrifying that the greed of a few kept all of humanity enslaved longer than necessary.
When Americans asked the government to come up with economic solutions for the Covid pandemic, it was a disaster. The government gave out money via unemployment programs without basic fraud checks, resulting in hundreds of billions of dollars going to overseas fraudsters. The program to give money to businesses did not have intelligent means testing, resulting in hundreds of billions more being wasted on companies that did not need it.… read more “Government Solutions”
We have a bunch of service academies (West Point, Annapolis, Air Force Academy) that all really don’t have any clear competition or measurements of effectiveness. I propose each military branch have at least THREE service academies that feed it, then we compare the results of their graduates to determine which get funding and which get shut down and replaced with another new test.